The Waite–Smith Deck
The Chariot
Forward motion held in balance by two sphinxes.
- Work
- from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck
- Plate
- Major Arcana · Key 7
- 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
An armoured figure rides a canopy of stars, a black sphinx and a white sphinx harnessed before him, a walled city at his back. Pamela Colman Smith drew him in 1909 as forward motion held in balance — the two sphinxes pulling opposite ways, mastered by the driver's will. Smith gave the card its winged emblem and starry crown working quickly for a flat fee, and was left off the credit for the better part of a century. Look for the crescent shoulder-plates, the city she set behind him, and the 'PCS' monogram low in the frame.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Chariot 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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