The Celestial Figures
The Children of the Moon
Astrology as social portrait — the sky sorting humankind.
- Work
- from the Medieval Housebook
- Plate
- The Children of Luna
- Maker
- The Master of the Housebook (attributed)
- Date
- c. 1480
- Source
- Medieval Housebook of Wolfegg Castle · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source plate — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Under the Moon in her chariot, her children pursue the watery, wandering trades she was thought to rule — millers and fishermen, fowlers and bathers, gamblers and travellers, and those who work by night. This 'Children of Luna' follows the tradition of the German Housebook of about 1480, one plate in a set that gave each of the seven planets a bustling scene of the people and pursuits it governed. It is astrology as social portrait: the sky sorted humanity into seven kinds, and the artists drew each kind at work and play. The Moon's, fittingly, is full of water — rivers, mills, and a world in motion.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Children of the Moon 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 Medieval Housebook (1480), held by Medieval Housebook of Wolfegg Castle · scan: 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.
