Occult Literature
Strength: Pamela Colman Smith’s Woman and Lion
A woman bends towards a lion beneath an infinity sign, her hands placed near its open mouth. A softly indicated landscape and flowering garment accompany the close bodily exchange. Smith gives strength a small, attentive gesture instead of a battle scene or triumphant weapon. The woman's curved posture and the animal's turning body make a relation of contact visible at the centre of the design. The distant hill keeps that encounter within an open world.
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Pamela Colman Smith (design). "Strength: Pamela Colman Smith’s Woman and Lion" [editorial title]. In The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination, Dr. L. W. de Laurence. 1916 edition, 1916, De Laurence, Scott & Co.. Source scan leaf 63. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/tarot-smith-58
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Original source design and caption inspected; composition retained with scan margins trimmed. No reconstructed or recoloured details. Design credited to Pamela Colman Smith; reproduced in the active L. W. de Laurence volume. Card border, number and title retained.
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Pamela Colman Smith (design). Strength: Pamela Colman Smith’s Woman and Lion. The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination. Scan leaf 63. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/tarot-smith-58