The Alchemical Cabinet
Lambspring, Title Page
The philosopher, staff in hand, by his furnace.
- Work
- from The Book of Lambspring, in the Musaeum Hermeticum
- 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 robed and bearded philosopher stands with a long staff beside a domed furnace, open country behind him. Above him runs the title: Lambspring, a noble German philosopher, his little old book on the philosophers' stone, turned from German verse into Latin by Nicolaus Barnaud. It opens the Book of Lambspring in the Musaeum Hermeticum, printed at Frankfurt by Hermann à Sande, with plates by Matthäus Merian. The furnace stands nearly as tall as the man.
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The plate, in your home
Lambspring, Title Page 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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