Waite–Smith, Trump 16
The Tower
What you can see
Lightning strikes a tower and dislodges its crown. Flames emerge as two figures fall on either side.
What Waite says
Waite develops the visible destruction into the collapse of false doctrine and its interpretation. He resists treating the scene only as a generic punishment of pride or a literal retelling of the Fall.
Waite · Part II, §2 · printed pp. 132–135 ↗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.