Waite–Smith, Pentacles
Three of Pentacles
What you can see
A worker stands on a bench beneath an arch containing three pentacles, facing two other figures, one holding a plan.
What Waite says
Waite explicitly compares this worker with the Eight of Pentacles: the earlier apprentice is now working in earnest. His meanings include skilled work and recognition.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 276 ↗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.