The Waite–Smith Deck
The World
The circle closed — the sequence arriving home.
- Work
- from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck
- Plate
- Major Arcana · Key 21
- 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 dancing figure moves within a great laurel wreath, a wand in each hand, and at the four corners the man, eagle, bull, and lion look on. Pamela Colman Smith drew it in 1909 as the deck's last card — completion, the circle closed, the sequence that began with the Fool arriving home. Smith completed the full seventy-eight in a matter of months for a flat fee, and for a century the finished world of her work carried everyone's name but hers. Look for the two poles of the wreath, the four living creatures, and the small 'PCS' monogram low in the frame.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The World 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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