The Waite–Smith Deck
The Hanged Man
The world seen from a deliberately inverted place.
- Work
- from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck
- Plate
- Major Arcana · Key 12
- 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 man hangs upside down from a living T-shaped tree, one leg crossed behind the other, a halo of light around his calm face. Pamela Colman Smith drew him in 1909 as the card of suspension and reversal — the world seen from a deliberately inverted place, and no distress in it. Smith completed all seventy-eight images in a matter of months for a flat fee, and history hung her own name out of sight for the better part of a century. Notice the golden radiance around his head, and the small 'PCS' monogram set into the lower corner of the plate.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Hanged Man 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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