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Pamela Colman Smith’s Tarot: Twelve Card Illustrations
Explore twelve Pamela Colman Smith tarot designs as pictures, tracing gestures, vessels, landscapes and symbolic figures from The Star to selected Major and Minor Arcana.
The Star
Pamela Colman Smith A kneeling woman pours water from two vessels, one into a pool and one upon the ground.
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Page of Cups
Pamela Colman Smith A page beside water looks at a small fish rising from the cup held in one hand.
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The Magician: Pamela Colman Smith’s Tarot Design
Pamela Colman Smith A standing figure raises a wand above a table carrying a cup, blade, staff and pentacle.
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Strength: Pamela Colman Smith’s Woman and Lion
Pamela Colman Smith A woman bends towards a lion beneath an infinity sign, her hands placed near its open mouth.
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The Devil
Pamela Colman Smith A horned winged figure sits above two smaller human forms joined by chains to a pedestal.
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The World
Pamela Colman Smith A draped figure stands within an oval wreath, holding a short wand in each hand.
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Eight of Wands
Pamela Colman Smith Eight parallel leafy wands descend diagonally over a river, fields and a distant house, without a human figure.
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Ace of Wands
Pamela Colman Smith A hand extends from a curling cloud to hold a branching staff above a landscape with a distant building.
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Eight of Cups
Pamela Colman Smith A cloaked traveller leaves eight standing cups and climbs toward rocky heights beneath a moon.
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Ace of Cups
Pamela Colman Smith A hand from a cloud supports a cup beneath a descending dove, with streams falling into lily-covered water.
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Eight of Swords
Pamela Colman Smith A blindfolded, bound figure stands among eight planted swords on wet ground with distant buildings.
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Ace of Swords
Pamela Colman Smith A hand emerges from a cloud holding an upright sword through a crown with hanging foliage above mountains.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination