The Waite–Smith Deck
The Devil
The Lovers again, now loosely chained.
- Work
- from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck
- Plate
- Major Arcana · Key 15
- 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 horned figure crouches on a half-cube, a torch in one hand, a man and a woman chained loosely at its feet. Pamela Colman Smith drew it in 1909 as the mirror-image of the Lovers — the same pair, now bound, though the chains hang loose enough to lift. It is a card about self-made bondage, drawn without melodrama. Smith gave the deck its whole visual argument in a matter of months for a flat fee, and went uncredited for a hundred years. Notice the inverted star above the horns, the loosened chains, and the 'PCS' monogram low in the frame.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Devil 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.
From the same hand
