The Alchemical Cabinet
Lambspring, Figure IX: The Lord of the Forest
A king enthroned above the trees.
- Work
- from The Book of Lambspring, in the Musaeum Hermeticum
- Plate
- Nona 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 crowned king sits on his throne in an open pavilion, steps leading up to him and hills and trees stretching away behind. The verse names him the lord of the forests, who has climbed from the lowest place to the highest. This is the ninth figure of the Book of Lambspring, engraved by Matthäus Merian and printed at Frankfurt in 1678 in the Musaeum Hermeticum. After the beasts of the earlier figures, the poem turns here to a king: the work reaching its first rank.
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The plate, in your home
Lambspring, Figure IX: The Lord of the Forest 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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