The Celestial Figures
The Sun Ringed in Cloud
A small sun at the centre of every heaven.
- Work
- from Utriusque Cosmi Historia
- Maker
- Robert Fludd; published by Johann Theodor de Bry
- Date
- 1617
- Source
- Published Oppenheim, 1617 · 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 small rayed sun sits at the centre of band after band of circling heaven, and the whole thing floats in a ring of cloud. It belongs to the creation sequence that opens Robert Fludd's 1617 history of the great world, a run of round plates that build the cosmos one layer at a time. Fludd was a physician who believed the body and the sky shared one design, and his plates read like diagrams of an eye or a cell as much as of the heavens.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Sun Ringed in Cloud 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 Utriusque Cosmi Historia (1617), held by Published Oppenheim, 1617 · 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.
