The Waite–Smith Deck
Wheel of Fortune
Rise and fall, drawn as one turning wheel.
- Work
- from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck
- Plate
- Major Arcana · Key 10
- 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 great wheel turns in a cloudy sky, lettered T-A-R-O around its rim, a sphinx above and a serpent descending one side. In the four corners the winged figures of the fixed signs read their books. Pamela Colman Smith drew it in 1909 as the card of the turning wheel — rise and fall made into a single revolving image. Smith completed the deck at speed for a flat fee, and for the better part of a century the wheel of her own credit stayed at the bottom. Her small 'PCS' monogram sits in the corner of the plate, as on all seventy-eight.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Wheel of Fortune 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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