The Celestial Figures
Sol, the Sun
The sun drives its chariot over the sea.
- Work
- from the E-series Tarocchi
- Plate
- XXXXIIII
- 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
The sun drives a chariot behind galloping horses across the top of the sky, while far below a small figure tumbles out of the air toward the sea. That figure is Phaethon, who borrowed the sun's chariot and could not hold it. The card is number forty-four of the Ferrarese Tarocchi of about 1465, a set of fifty engravings that climbs from the ranks of men through the Muses, the arts and the virtues to the planets and the spheres.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Sol, the Sun 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.
