The Waite–Smith Deck
The Moon
The road that runs on past what the eye can settle.
- Work
- from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck
- Plate
- Major Arcana · Key 18
- 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 path runs between two towers toward distant hills, a dog and a wolf baying at the moon, a crayfish rising from the pool. Pamela Colman Smith drew it in 1909 as the card of the half-lit and uncertain — the road that runs on past what the eye can settle. The moon above sheds fifteen drops of light. Smith completed the deck in a matter of months for a flat fee, uncredited for the better part of a century while her images circled the globe. Find the crayfish at the water's edge, and the 'PCS' monogram low in the corner of the plate.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Moon 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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