Boehme's Philosophick Globe
Jacob Boehme, c. 1620
$123
Print check at 11 x 14 in: 185 dpi, good. Trimmed 6.2% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A great globe crossed by light and dark, ringed with the names of God's properties — one of the fold-out diagrams engraved for the works of Jacob Boehme, the shoemaker-mystic of Görlitz whose visions tried to map the whole inner architecture of the godhead. Boehme wrote in the early seventeenth century; these elaborate 'philosophick' plates were made for later editions of his works to hold his difficult system in the eye. Some had moving flaps a reader could lift. This one draws the war and reconciliation of light and dark that ran through all his thought. We hang it as a marvel of visionary diagramming — theology drawn as an engine of concentric wheels.
- Maker
- Jacob Boehme
- Date
- c. 1620
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- Works of Jacob Boehme · scan: Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Works of Jacob Boehme · scan: Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00483
| Picture | 11 x 14 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 12.6 x 15.6 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 260 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.5% |
| 11 x 14 in | 185 | Good | Trimmed 6.2% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 130 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 86 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,177 x 2,600 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 120, lights 233 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 17.74
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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