The Waite–Smith Deck
The Star
A kneeling figure pouring water beneath a great star.
- Work
- from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck
- Plate
- Major Arcana · Key 17
- 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
The kneeling figure pours two vessels beneath a great star — one to the water, one to the land. Pamela Colman Smith drew it in 1909, one of seventy-eight images she completed in a matter of months for a flat fee, and for the better part of a century the deck was credited to everyone but her. Look for the ibis in the tree, the seven smaller stars around the great one, and the small 'PCS' monogram tucked into the corner — the signature the story left out. This house prints her name on every plate.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Star 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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