Johann Bode's Uranographia of 1801 is the grand finale of the age of artful star atlases — the largest, most crowded, most ambitious of them all, mapping thousands more stars than any predecessor before science traded beauty for bare precision. His Cetus is the sea-monster of Andromeda's myth, coiling across a teeming field of stars, drawn with a late, delicate hand. After Bode, the figures faded from the charts and the constellations became mere lines. This is very nearly the last time the old gods and beasts were allowed to sprawl in full glory across the sky.

Maker: Johann Elert Bode
Date: 1801
Medium of the original: Plate
Original held by: Published Berlin · Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Published Berlin · Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00989

As chosen: 24 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 18 in
Outside size	25.6 x 19.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
10 x 8 in	360	Excellent	Trimmed 6.3%
14 x 11 in	261	Excellent	Trimmed 4.5%
16 x 12 in	240	Excellent	Edge to edge
20 x 16 in	180	Good	Trimmed 6.3%
24 x 18 in	160	Good	Edge to edge

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
30 x 24 in	120 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
40 x 30 in	96 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	80 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

3,840 x 2,880 px, srgb, c2

Tone

Darks 155, lights 231 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

386.68

Notes

Narrow tonal range (28 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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