The Alchemical Cabinet
Heinrich Khunrath, Portrait Plate
The author at his desk, coloured by hand.
- 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
Heinrich Khunrath sits at a desk, pen in hand, a book open in front of him, inside an oval frame lettered with his name and titles. In the Wellcome Collection's copy of his Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, printed at Hanau in 1609, the plates were coloured by hand, and the portrait glows red, gold and green. Khunrath died in 1605, before this edition appeared. His amphitheatre of eternal wisdom is one of the great illustrated books of alchemy.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Heinrich Khunrath, Portrait Plate 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
