The Waite–Smith Deck
Justice
The weighing and the cut, made whole.
- Work
- from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck
- Plate
- Major Arcana · Key 11
- Maker
- Pamela Colman Smith, for A. E. Waite
- Date
- 1909
- Source
- Published London, 1909 · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source plate — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
A crowned figure sits between two pillars, an upraised sword in one hand and level scales in the other. Pamela Colman Smith drew her in 1909 for the card A. E. Waite numbered eleven, trading places with Strength in the older order. Sword and scale together: the weighing and the cut, judgement made whole. Smith gave the deck its clarity of gesture in a matter of months, working for a flat fee, and was left uncredited for a hundred years while her images circled the world. Look for the square clasp at her throat and the 'PCS' monogram low in the frame.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Justice printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate — from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck (1909), held by Published London, 1909 · scan: Wikimedia Commons. The work was published before 1931 and is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper; framed pieces sit behind acrylic, no mat.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans available, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the emblem line, the letterpress bite, the registration of colour — on stock made to outlive its owner.
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