Waite–Smith, Cups
Five of Cups
What you can see
A cloaked figure faces three overturned cups. Two upright cups remain behind, with a river, bridge and building beyond.
What Waite says
Waite joins loss with something still remaining. His other meanings include transmission or inheritance that fails to meet expectations; the remaining pair matters to the account.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 216 ↗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.