The Emblem Shelf
The Invisible Chaos and the Visible
The world before it had a shape.
- Work
- from Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer
- Maker
- Anonymous; published at Altona
- Date
- 1785
- Source
- Published Altona, 1785 · 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
Three roundels run across the top, headed the invisible chaos, the visible chaos, and the wonder-time of the signs and stars. Below them a funnel of lines narrows down through a disc split black and white. The plate is from the Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, Altona, 1785. It tries to show the stuff the world was made from before it took form. The colouring is by hand, so no two copies are the same.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Invisible Chaos and the Visible 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 Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer (1785), held by Published Altona, 1785 · 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.
