Hand-colored minchiate tarot card showing Roman numeral XXX, star corner ornaments, and a stylized scorpion-like creature with claws and a curved tail among red dots.

Minchiate Tarot Card XXX with Scorpion-like Creature

A hand-colored playing card with the Roman numeral XXX in a cartouche at top and star-shaped corner ornaments. Beneath it, a stylized scorpion-like creature with curved yellow and green claws and a segmented tail sits on a green and yellow ground, surrounded by red dots.

Artist: Unknown
Date: 17th century
Medium: Stencil-colored woodblock print
Source: Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size: 1663 × 2579 px

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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1700).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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