Waite–Smith, Trump 13
Death
What you can see
A skeletal rider carries a flower-emblazoned banner past fallen and kneeling figures. The sun appears between distant towers.
What Waite says
Waite discusses passage and transformation, including both ordinary death and a distinct mystical change of consciousness during life. He treats the rose on the banner as a sign of life within this account.
Waite · Part II, §2 · printed pp. 120–123 ↗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.