The Emblem Shelf
Mons Philosophorum, the Philosophers’ Mountain
A mountain with the work hidden inside.
- 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 green mountain rises to a crowned peak under the sun and moon, and at its foot a cave opens on a seated figure. The title is Mons Philosophorum, the mountain of the philosophers, and the German verses below run in two columns down the sheet. The plate comes from the Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, Altona, 1785, and it is the most picture-like sheet in the book: a mountain view that hides a lesson.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Mons Philosophorum, the Philosophers’ Mountain 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.
