The Emblem Shelf
The Image of Typhon
A monster built from serpents.
- Work
- from Oedipus Aegyptiacus
- Maker
- Athanasius Kircher
- Date
- 1652–1654
- Source
- Published Rome, 1652–1654 · 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 towering figure with serpents for limbs and great wings spread wide fills the page, Imago Typhonis engraved above him: the image of Typhon, after Apollodorus. In Greek myth Typhon was the storm monster who fought Zeus, and the Greeks matched him with the Egyptian god Set. Athanasius Kircher set him beside the gods of Egypt in Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 1652–1654, with a lettered key on each side. The Latin verses at the foot describe the monster coil by coil.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Image of Typhon 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 Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652), held by Published Rome, 1652–1654 · 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.
