The Emblem Shelf
Boehme's Philosophick Globe
Theology drawn as an engine of concentric wheels.
- Work
- from the works of Jacob Boehme
- Maker
- Jacob Boehme
- Date
- c. 1620
- Source
- Works of Jacob Boehme · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source plate — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
A great globe crossed by light and dark, ringed with the names of God's properties — one of the fold-out diagrams engraved for the works of Jacob Boehme, the shoemaker-mystic of Görlitz whose visions tried to map the whole inner architecture of the godhead. Boehme wrote in the early seventeenth century; these elaborate 'philosophick' plates were made for later editions of his works to hold his difficult system in the eye. Some had moving flaps a reader could lift. This one draws the war and reconciliation of light and dark that ran through all his thought. We hang it as a marvel of visionary diagramming — theology drawn as an engine of concentric wheels.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Boehme's Philosophick Globe printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate — from the works of Jacob Boehme (1620), held by Works of Jacob Boehme · scan: Wikimedia Commons. The work was published before 1931 and is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper; framed pieces sit behind acrylic, no mat.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans available, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the emblem line, the letterpress bite, the registration of colour — on stock made to outlive its owner.
