The Alchemical Cabinet
The Knight of the Double Fountain
Two waters, red and white, and the marriage they promise.
- Work
- from Splendor Solis
- Plate
- The Knight of the Two Fountains
- Maker
- Attributed to Salomon Trismosin
- Date
- c. 1582
- Source
- British Library, Harley MS 3469 · 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
An armoured knight stands between two fountains, one flowing red and one white — the twin streams whose union alchemists took as the heart of the work, sol and luna, the red and the white made one. Splendor Solis stages the meeting as a courtly tableau, the figure poised in a manicured Renaissance garden about 1582. Red and white run through the whole tradition: the two tinctures, the two lights, the marriage the Great Work was always driving toward. The plate hands you the doctrine as a single legible picture — two waters, one ground — and wraps it, as ever, in a border of painted flowers.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Knight of the Double Fountain 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 Splendor Solis (1582), held by British Library, Harley MS 3469 · 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.
