Andreas Cellarius – Planisphaerium Ptolemaicum, 1661 | Giclée Print
50 × 50 cm / 19.7 × 19.7 in — Reduced, 0.82× original
CHF 59.00
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Andreas Cellarius – Planisphaerium Ptolemaicum, 1661 | Giclée Print
CHF 59.00
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The Ptolemaic universe drawn as a machine: the earth at the centre of the world, the seven planetary orbs turning around it in coloured rings, the zodiac running round the rim, and Ptolemy himself seated in the lower left corner with an armillary sphere and a globe. Plate 1 of Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica, printed from a copper plate in Amsterdam by Johannes Janssonius and coloured by hand.
What this is. A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks from the museum's own open-access scan of its copy. It is not a seventeenth-century print and is not sold as one.
Scale
Original: plate 51.34 × 43.75 cm — hand-coloured copper-plate print
50 × 50 cm / 19.7 × 19.7 in — reduced, 0.82× original. Image 42.00 × 35.79 cm.
70 × 70 cm / 27.6 × 27.6 in — original size, 1:1. Image 51.34 × 43.75 cm.
The print
Giclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The paper tone and the hand colouring of the original are kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.
Provenance
Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596–1665), Planisphaerium Ptolemaicum, sive machina orbium mundi ex hypothesi Ptolemaica in plano disposita, plate 1 of Harmonia macrocosmica, seu Atlas universalis et novus.
Amsterdam: apud Joannem Janssonium, 1661.
Where this comes from
The museum file, the measurements, and what we are allowed to sell: the record for this sheet.
Further reading
Why This Print Is Not Bigger
