Hand-colored playing card showing a crowned woman holding scales and a sword, marked VIII, in red, green and yellow.

Minchiate Tarot Card, Justice (VIII), Stencil-Colored Woodblock

A crowned, robed woman holds a pair of balance scales aloft in her left hand and rests a tall sword upright at her right side. The card is marked with the Roman numeral VIII, and red, green, yellow and orange colors are stenciled over black linework on a woodblock print.

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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