The Emblem Shelf
The Conjunction
The alchemical marriage, drawn as plainly as a folk tale.
- Work
- from the Rosarium Philosophorum
- Maker
- After the 1550 woodcuts
- Date
- 1550
- Source
- Rosarium Philosophorum, Frankfurt, 1550 · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Wellcome Collection. Public Domain / CC BY 4.0
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source plate — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
A king and a queen meet in a bath, or lie together beneath a shared crown — the coniunctio, the alchemical marriage, and the emotional heart of the Rosarium Philosophorum. The Rosarium, printed in 1550 with a celebrated series of woodcuts, told the whole Great Work as the courtship, union, death, and rebirth of a royal pair, sol and luna made one flesh. The images are frank and tender, and they carried far: Carl Jung would later read the entire sequence as a map of the psyche. Here is one of its central plates — the moment of union, drawn as plainly and strangely as a folk tale.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Conjunction 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 Rosarium Philosophorum (1550), held by Rosarium Philosophorum, Frankfurt, 1550 · 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.
Attribution: Wellcome Collection. Public Domain / CC BY 4.0
