The Basket Maker

Here’s an exclusive look at a rare illustration by Pamela Colman Smith, the artist who created the Rider-Waite Tarot. It’s a print from “The Basket Maker,” a small portfolio of her work that she self-published in London in 1901.

It’s extremely rare: the Cornell University Library has one copy, and there’s a second  at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

The portfolio itself is olive green, and it holds three hand-colored illustrations that accompany three children’s poems.