The Alchemical Cabinet
Title Page, Musaeum Hermeticum
A frame of gods around a library.
- Work
- from The Book of Lambspring, in the Musaeum Hermeticum
- Maker
- Engraved title page for Hermann à Sande
- 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
The title Musaeum Hermeticum sits in a frame crowded with figures: standing gods in the side panels, oval scenes above and below. The Hermetic Museum, reformed and enlarged, was printed at Frankfurt by Hermann à Sande in 1678 and gathered twenty-one alchemical treatises into one volume, among them the Book of Lambspring and Basil Valentine's Twelve Keys. A museum here meant a house of the Muses, a place of study. The engraved frame is its front door.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Title Page, Musaeum Hermeticum 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.
