Waite–Smith, Swords
Ace of Swords
What you can see
A hand emerging from a cloud raises a sword through a crown. Branches hang from the crown, with mountains below.
What Waite says
Waite emphasizes concentrated force, conquest and excess, in both love and hatred. He also leaves the crown open to a significance beyond ordinary divinatory meanings.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 252 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.