The Tarot pack of cards. Seventy-eight colour process prints after watercolours by Pamela Colman Smith under the direction of A.E. Waite.

  • Waite, Arthur Edward, 1857-1942.
Date:
1971
Reference:
39276i
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Description

The pack consists of 22 cards representing the Major Arcana (the Fool, the Magician, the High Priestess, the Empress etc.), and 56 cards representing the four Minor Arcana, in the form of four suites of 14 cards each. The suites are swords, wands, cups and pentacles; each suite has an ace, II-X, King, Queen, Knight and Page

Publication/Creation

Stamford, Connecticut : U.S. Games Systems, Inc., 1971 (Switzerland)

Physical description

78 cards : process prints, printed in colours ; 11.6 x 7 cm + leaflet (48pp.)

Lettering

The Rider Tarot deck. The original and only authorised edition of the famous 78-card Tarot deck designed by Pamela Colman Smith under the direction of Arthur Edward Waite. Reissued in collaboration with Miss Sybil Waite and Rider & Company, London Lettering from box

Creator/production credits

On the artist see "To all believers": the art of Pamela Colman Smith, exhibition catalogue, Wilmington, Delaware: Delaware Art Museum, 1975, text by Melinda Boyd Parsons, and Mary K. Greer, Women of the Golden Dawn, Rochester, Vermont, 1995, appendix F, Pàmela Colman Smith and the Tarot'

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39276i

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