Hand-colored playing card with Roman numeral XXI showing a red and yellow sailing ship on green waves, with figures aboard and a small creature on the cabin.

Minchiate Tarot Card XXI with Ship at Sea

A hand-colored woodblock card numbered XXI in Roman numerals at top, with corner star motifs. A red-and-yellow sailed ship with figures on deck and a seated lion-like creature atop a cabin rides green waves beneath a diagonal mast.

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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