The Alchemical Cabinet
Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, Frontispiece
A title page built like a doorway.
- Work
- from Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae
- Maker
- Heinrich Khunrath
- Date
- 1609
- Source
- Wellcome Collection · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source plate — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
The long Latin title sits in an oval framed by columns, an arch and small scenes in the corners, all coloured by hand. It promises the amphitheatre of the only true eternal wisdom: Christian, kabbalistic, divine-magical, physical and chemical at once. Heinrich Khunrath's book was printed at Hanau in 1609, and the Wellcome Collection's copy carries plates mounted and coloured by hand. A frontispiece like this was the book's front door, and Khunrath built it grand.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, Frontispiece 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 Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (1609), held by Wellcome Collection · 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.
Attribution: Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0
