Death, the tarot card, from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck

Pamela Colman Smith (February 16th 1878 - september 18th 1951) was an artist, illustrator, and writer. Her chief claim to fame is designing the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite. The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... The most popular Tarot deck today is probably what is confusingly known as the Rider-Waite-Smith, Waite-Smith, or simply the Rider deck. ... As discussed in more detail below, the Tarot is a deck of 78 cards, consisting of: the major arcana, consisting of 21 trump cards and the Fool card; the minor arcana consisting of 56 cards: ten cards numbered from Ace to 10 in four different suits; traditionally batons, cups, swords... Arthur Edward Waite (October 2, 1857 _ May 19, 1942) was an occultist and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. ...

Smith was born in England to American parents, and grew up in Jamaica. She toured with the theatre company of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving in the late 1890s, Although born in america, she later moved to england wehere she became a theatrical designer designer for a miniature theatre and illustrator where she joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1903, and met Waite for whom she designed the 78 Rider-Waite tarot cards as paintings. She also did a great deal of illustration work for William Butler Yeats and his brother Jack, but apart from this deck, her art found little commercial success. Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... Ellen Alice Terry (February 27, 1847 – July 21, 1928) was an English stage actress. ... Henry Irving, as Hamlet, in a 1893 illustration from The Idler magazine John Henry Brodribb Irving (February 6, 1838–October 13, 1905), better known as Sir Henry Irving, was one of the most famous stage actors of all time. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, in Egyptian costume, performs a ritual of Isis (not a Rite of the Golden Dawn). ... William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and public figure. ... Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) was an Irish artist who wrote and illustrated for books and magazines. ...

In addition to the tarot deck, Smith wrote and illustrated several books about Jamaican folklore, including Annancy Stories (1902) which were about Jamaican versions of tales involving the traditional African folk figure Anansi the Spider. 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and second most populous after Asia. ... Anansi is one of the most important and famous gods of west African lore. ...