ACE OF SWORDS, c.1949
Watercolour. 7½ x 7½in. (19.2 x 19cm.)
Titled on the face of the work.
Provenance
National Trust bequest.
Tate Gallery Archive.
According to Golden Dawn writings, the card is traditionally depicted as a hand issuing from a cloud, grasping a sword, the point of which is encircled by a crown.
Colquhoun has, as with the other aces, omitted the cloud and hand. Her card concentrates of the central image of the sword and encircling crown.
The Ace of Swords is also known as The Root of the Powers of Air.