The Emblem Shelf
The Heavenly and Earthly Eve
The mother of all creatures, as a tree.
- 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
A tree of roundels grows from the foot of the page to a sun at the top, with Rosa Crucis written on one side and Philosophorum on the other. The heading names the heavenly and earthly Eve, the mother of all creatures in heaven and on earth. The plate is one of the Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, printed at Altona in 1785. Across its middle run seven lions, seven ravens and seven spheres, the kind of counted, ordered symbol the Rosicrucian writers loved.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Heavenly and Earthly Eve 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.
