The Waite–Smith Deck
The Lovers
Two paths meeting beneath a great winged figure.
- Work
- from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck
- Plate
- Major Arcana · Key 6
- 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 and a woman stand beneath a great winged figure, a mountain between them, a tree of flame behind the man and a fruiting tree behind the woman. Pamela Colman Smith drew them in 1909 as the card of choice and union — not romance alone but the moment two paths meet. Smith completed the whole deck in a matter of months for a flat fee, and the images that made her the most reproduced illustrator of the century carried, for a century, everyone's name but hers. Find the small 'PCS' monogram at the lower edge. This house restores her credit.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Lovers 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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