Judgement

An angel sounds a trumpet from the clouds, and below, figures rise with open arms from their coffins on a grey sea. Pamela Colman Smith drew it in 1909 as the card of the great awakening — the call and the answer, the reckoning that lifts rather than condemns. A cross-marked banner hangs from the trumpet. Smith completed all seventy-eight images in a matter of months for a flat fee, and the deck answered to other names for the better part of a century. Find the rising figures, the far white mountains, and the 'PCS' monogram set into the lower corner.

Maker

Pamela Colman Smith, for A. E. Waite

Date

1909

Medium of the original

Plate

Original held by

Published London, 1909 · scan: Wikimedia Commons

Credit

Published London, 1909 · scan: Wikimedia Commons

Rights

Public domain, verified

Catalogue number

PA-00447