Rider-Waite-Smith
Suits
5
Cards
78
Author
Arthur Edward Waite, Pamela Colman Smith
Publisher
William Rider & Son
Place
London
Year
1909
Pattern
Tarot
License
Public domain
The Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS) Tarot, created in 1909 by occultist Arthur Edward Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, was published in London by William Rider & Son. Grounded in the esoteric tradition of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the deck revolutionized modern tarot by featuring fully illustrated scenic pips for all 56 Minor Arcana cards and transposing Strength to VIII and Justice to XI to match astrological correspondences.
