The Alchemical Cabinet
Lambspring, Figure III: The Stag and the Unicorn
A stag and a unicorn meet in a forest.
- Work
- from The Book of Lambspring, in the Musaeum Hermeticum
- Plate
- Tertia Figura
- Maker
- Lambspring; engraved by Matthäus Merian
- Date
- 1678
- Source
- Published Frankfurt, 1678 · scan: DPLA via 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 stag and a unicorn stand face to face in a forest clearing. The verse tells the reader that both are hidden in the wood, and the caption explains: in the body are soul and spirit. It is the third figure of the Book of Lambspring, engraved by Matthäus Merian and printed in the Musaeum Hermeticum, Frankfurt, 1678. Look at the forest: Merian made his name engraving views of towns and country, and the trees here are as carefully made as the animals.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Lambspring, Figure III: The Stag and the Unicorn 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 Book of Lambspring, in the Musaeum Hermeticum (1678), held by Published Frankfurt, 1678 · scan: DPLA via 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.
