The Waite–Smith Deck
The Fool
The figure numbered zero, stepping off into the open road.
- Work
- from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck
- Plate
- Major Arcana · Key 0
- 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 young traveller steps toward the edge of a cliff, a white rose in one hand, a small dog at his heels. Pamela Colman Smith drew him in 1909 as the figure numbered zero — the beginning that stands outside the sequence, the open road before experience. She completed all seventy-eight images in a matter of months for a flat fee, and for nearly a century the deck bore every name but hers. Notice the white sun rising behind him, and the little 'PCS' monogram set low in the corner. This house prints her name on every plate.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Fool 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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