Waite–Smith, Swords
Ten of Swords
What you can see
Ten swords pierce a figure lying face-down beside water. A pale band appears at the horizon beneath a dark sky.
What Waite says
Waite associates the design with affliction and desolation, but expressly says it is not especially a card of violent death. His reversed list admits gains while qualifying their permanence.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 234 ↗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.