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Blake’s Book of Urizen

Creation and rebellion in Blake’s illuminated plates.

Nielsen’s East of the Sun

Norwegian fairy tales illustrated by Kay Nielsen.

Gnostic Spirit Drawings

Four colour drawings from a 1908 Gnostic text.

Doré’s Dante

From the dark wood to Paradise with Gustave Doré.

The Kingdom of the Gods

Ethelwynne Quail’s visions of the spirit world.

Vassos’s Phobia

Art Deco studies of fear by John Vassos.

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King of Wands

Pamela Colman Smith

A crowned king sits in profile with a leafy staff, a patterned throne and a small lizard at his feet.

The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A queen faces forward between lion armrests, holding a sunflower and a staff, with a black cat below. — Pamela Colman Smith
A queen faces forward between lion armrests, holding a sunflower and a staff, with a black cat below.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

An armoured rider on a rearing horse carries a leafy wand across a sparse landscape with pyramidal hills. — Pamela Colman Smith
An armoured rider on a rearing horse carries a leafy wand across a sparse landscape with pyramidal hills.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A standing page in a patterned cloak looks upward along a tall staff, with low pyramidal forms behind. — Pamela Colman Smith
A standing page in a patterned cloak looks upward along a tall staff, with low pyramidal forms behind.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A bent figure carries ten bundled leafy staves toward a small settlement on the right. — Pamela Colman Smith
A bent figure carries ten bundled leafy staves toward a small settlement on the right.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A bandaged figure grips one staff in front of eight upright wands arranged like a fence. — Pamela Colman Smith
A bandaged figure grips one staff in front of eight upright wands arranged like a fence.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

Eight parallel leafy wands descend diagonally over a river, fields and a distant house, without a human figure. — Pamela Colman Smith
Eight parallel leafy wands descend diagonally over a river, fields and a distant house, without a human figure.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A figure braces on a rocky height with a staff held across the body as six other wands rise from below. — Pamela Colman Smith
A figure braces on a rocky height with a staff held across the body as six other wands rise from below.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A wreath-crowned rider on a pale horse carries a staff topped by a laurel ring, accompanied by other wand-bearers. — Pamela Colman Smith
A wreath-crowned rider on a pale horse carries a staff topped by a laurel ring, accompanied by other wand-bearers.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

Five differently dressed youths brandish crossing staffs in an open space beneath the numeral V. — Pamela Colman Smith
Five differently dressed youths brandish crossing staffs in an open space beneath the numeral V.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

Four upright staffs support a flower garland while two figures raise bouquets before buildings and turrets. — Pamela Colman Smith
Four upright staffs support a flower garland while two figures raise bouquets before buildings and turrets.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A cloaked figure seen from behind stands among three staffs and looks across water toward small ships. — Pamela Colman Smith
A cloaked figure seen from behind stands among three staffs and looks across water toward small ships.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A cloaked figure on a battlement holds a globe, with two staffs and a rose-and-lily emblem nearby. — Pamela Colman Smith
A cloaked figure on a battlement holds a globe, with two staffs and a rose-and-lily emblem nearby.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A hand extends from a curling cloud to hold a branching staff above a landscape with a distant building. — Pamela Colman Smith
A hand extends from a curling cloud to hold a branching staff above a landscape with a distant building.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A crowned king sits on a throne surrounded by waves, holding a cup and sceptre, with a fish and ship nearby. — Pamela Colman Smith
A crowned king sits on a throne surrounded by waves, holding a cup and sceptre, with a fish and ship nearby.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A queen seated beside water studies an ornate covered cup, with carved figures on her tall throne. — Pamela Colman Smith
A queen seated beside water studies an ornate covered cup, with carved figures on her tall throne.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A knight wearing a winged helmet holds a cup while riding a pale horse beside a winding stream. — Pamela Colman Smith
A knight wearing a winged helmet holds a cup while riding a pale horse beside a winding stream.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A page beside water looks at a small fish rising from the cup held in one hand. — Pamela Colman Smith
A page beside water looks at a small fish rising from the cup held in one hand.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

Two adults raise their arms beneath an arc of ten cups as two children dance beside a distant home and stream. — Pamela Colman Smith
Two adults raise their arms beneath an arc of ten cups as two children dance beside a distant home and stream.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A seated figure folds both arms before a curved, draped counter supporting nine cups. — Pamela Colman Smith
A seated figure folds both arms before a curved, draped counter supporting nine cups.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A cloaked traveller leaves eight standing cups and climbs toward rocky heights beneath a moon. — Pamela Colman Smith
A cloaked traveller leaves eight standing cups and climbs toward rocky heights beneath a moon.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A silhouetted figure reaches toward seven cups suspended in clouds, holding different fantastic objects. — Pamela Colman Smith
A silhouetted figure reaches toward seven cups suspended in clouds, holding different fantastic objects.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

Two children meet among flower-filled cups in a paved garden enclosed by buildings. — Pamela Colman Smith
Two children meet among flower-filled cups in a paved garden enclosed by buildings.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A dark-cloaked figure looks toward three fallen cups while two remain upright behind. — Pamela Colman Smith
A dark-cloaked figure looks toward three fallen cups while two remain upright behind.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A seated figure folds both arms beneath a tree as a hand from a cloud offers a fourth cup. — Pamela Colman Smith
A seated figure folds both arms beneath a tree as a hand from a cloud offers a fourth cup.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

Three figures raise cups together among flowers and fruit beneath the numeral III. — Pamela Colman Smith
Three figures raise cups together among flowers and fruit beneath the numeral III.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

Two facing figures hold cups beneath intertwined serpents and a winged lion's head. — Pamela Colman Smith
Two facing figures hold cups beneath intertwined serpents and a winged lion's head.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A hand from a cloud supports a cup beneath a descending dove, with streams falling into lily-covered water. — Pamela Colman Smith
A hand from a cloud supports a cup beneath a descending dove, with streams falling into lily-covered water.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A crowned king faces forward on a carved throne, holding an upright sword against a yellow sky. — Pamela Colman Smith
A crowned king faces forward on a carved throne, holding an upright sword against a yellow sky.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

Queen of Swords

Pamela Colman Smith

A crowned queen sits in profile with one hand extended and an upright sword beside her patterned throne.

The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

An armoured rider charges left with a raised sword, a wind-blown plume and a decorated horse. — Pamela Colman Smith
An armoured rider charges left with a raised sword, a wind-blown plume and a decorated horse.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A standing page grips an upright sword with both hands amid clouds, birds and uneven ground. — Pamela Colman Smith
A standing page grips an upright sword with both hands amid clouds, birds and uneven ground.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

Ten upright swords pierce a prone figure beneath a dark sky and a lighter horizon. — Pamela Colman Smith
Ten upright swords pierce a prone figure beneath a dark sky and a lighter horizon.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A figure sits upright in bed with hands covering the face beneath nine horizontal swords. — Pamela Colman Smith
A figure sits upright in bed with hands covering the face beneath nine horizontal swords.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A blindfolded, bound figure stands among eight planted swords on wet ground with distant buildings. — Pamela Colman Smith
A blindfolded, bound figure stands among eight planted swords on wet ground with distant buildings.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A figure carries five swords away while two remain planted beside a distant camp. — Pamela Colman Smith
A figure carries five swords away while two remain planted beside a distant camp.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A ferryman poles a boat carrying two seated passengers and six upright swords toward a distant shore. — Pamela Colman Smith
A ferryman poles a boat carrying two seated passengers and six upright swords toward a distant shore.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A foreground figure gathers swords while two other figures turn away across a windswept field. — Pamela Colman Smith
A foreground figure gathers swords while two other figures turn away across a windswept field.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A praying knight's effigy lies on a tomb beneath three hanging swords, with a fourth along the base. — Pamela Colman Smith
A praying knight's effigy lies on a tomb beneath three hanging swords, with a fourth along the base.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

Three swords pierce a heart beneath clouds and slanting rain, without a human figure or landscape. — Pamela Colman Smith
Three swords pierce a heart beneath clouds and slanting rain, without a human figure or landscape.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A blindfolded seated figure holds two crossed swords before a rocky sea beneath a crescent moon. — Pamela Colman Smith
A blindfolded seated figure holds two crossed swords before a rocky sea beneath a crescent moon.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A hand emerges from a cloud holding an upright sword through a crown with hanging foliage above mountains. — 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

A crowned king holds a sceptre and pentacle on a bull-decorated throne amid vines and distant buildings. — Pamela Colman Smith
A crowned king holds a sceptre and pentacle on a bull-decorated throne amid vines and distant buildings.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A crowned queen looks down at a pentacle held in her lap beneath a leafy arch, with a rabbit beside the throne. — Pamela Colman Smith
A crowned queen looks down at a pentacle held in her lap beneath a leafy arch, with a rabbit beside the throne.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

An armoured knight displays a pentacle while seated on a dark horse before a low open landscape. — Pamela Colman Smith
An armoured knight displays a pentacle while seated on a dark horse before a low open landscape.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A youthful figure raises a pentacle in both hands above a flowered field with distant trees and mountains. — Pamela Colman Smith
A youthful figure raises a pentacle in both hands above a flowered field with distant trees and mountains.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

Ten pentacles overlay a scene of an older seated figure, two dogs, a child and adults beneath an archway. — Pamela Colman Smith
Ten pentacles overlay a scene of an older seated figure, two dogs, a child and adults beneath an archway.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

A robed woman holds a bird on one wrist amid grapevines, nine pentacles and a distant house. — Pamela Colman Smith
A robed woman holds a bird on one wrist amid grapevines, nine pentacles and a distant house.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

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