The Waite–Smith Deck
The Hermit
A single lantern carried on a darkened height.
- Work
- from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck
- Plate
- Major Arcana · Key 9
- 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 old man stands alone on a height, a lantern lifted in one hand, a six-pointed star of light held within it. Pamela Colman Smith drew him in 1909 as the card of withdrawal and inner search — the light carried outward from a solitary place. Smith, a folklorist as well as an illustrator, gave the figure his stillness and his snow in a matter of months, for a flat fee that left her without royalties or, for a century, credit. Look for the staff, the grey wilderness, and the 'PCS' monogram tucked at the lower edge where she signed every plate.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Hermit 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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