The Alchemical Cabinet
Lambspring, Figure IV: Two Lions
Two lions, to be made one.
- Work
- from The Book of Lambspring, in the Musaeum Hermeticum
- Plate
- Quarta 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
Two lions stand together in a clearing, one looking out at the reader. The verse calls it the greatest marvel, that out of two lions one is made, and the caption says spirit and soul must be joined and led back into their body. This is the fourth figure of the Book of Lambspring, engraved by Matthäus Merian and printed at Frankfurt in 1678 in the Musaeum Hermeticum. The lions are drawn with a heraldic dignity that lifts the whole page.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Lambspring, Figure IV: Two Lions 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.
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