The Moon

A path runs between two towers toward distant hills, a dog and a wolf baying at the moon, a crayfish rising from the pool. Pamela Colman Smith drew it in 1909 as the card of the half-lit and uncertain — the road that runs on past what the eye can settle. The moon above sheds fifteen drops of light. Smith completed the deck in a matter of months for a flat fee, uncredited for the better part of a century while her images circled the globe. Find the crayfish at the water's edge, and the 'PCS' monogram low in the corner of the plate.

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-00445