The Celestial Figures
Saturno, Saturn
The old god of time, eating his child.
- Work
- from the E-series Tarocchi
- Plate
- XXXXVII
- 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
Old Saturn leans on a scythe and lifts a child to his mouth, while other children wait at his feet and a dragon bites its own tail beside him. In myth Saturn swallowed his children; in the old astronomy he was the slowest and coldest of the planets, ruler of time and old age. The card is number forty-seven of the Tarocchi engraved in Ferrara about 1465, where the planets come near the top of a fifty-step ladder from beggar to the first cause.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Saturno, Saturn 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.
