The Celestial Figures
Primo Mobile, the First Mover
An angel turns the outermost sky.
- Work
- from the E-series Tarocchi
- Plate
- XXXXVIIII
- Maker
- Master of the E-Series Tarocchi
- Date
- c. 1465
- Source
- National Gallery of Art, Washington · 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 winged figure steps lightly across a curved horizon, holding up a great hoop: the outermost sphere of the sky, which turned all the others. Primo Mobile is card forty-nine of the so-called Tarocchi, a set of fifty engravings made in Ferrara around 1465 and numbered from the lowest station of human life up to the heavens. Despite the name they were never a deck for playing. The engraver is unknown and is called after the set, the Master of the E-Series Tarocchi.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Primo Mobile, the First Mover 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 E-series Tarocchi (1465), held by National Gallery of Art, Washington · 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.
