The most beautiful celestial atlas ever made — and a first taste of a whole sky waiting to be charted. Andreas Cellarius mapped the heavens as lavishly as any cartographer mapped the Earth, the constellations drawn as the gods, beasts, and heroes the ancients saw among the stars, the whole framed by cherubs and astronomers. It belongs as much to the story of maps as to the story of the stars — the point where the cartographer's art lifts its eyes from the world to the firmament above it.

Maker: Andreas Cellarius
Date: 1660
Medium of the original: Plate
Original held by: Published Amsterdam
Credit: Published Amsterdam
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00337

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	722	Excellent	Trimmed 5.9%
14 x 11 in	525	Excellent	Trimmed 4.2%
16 x 12 in	479	Excellent	Trimmed 0.3%
20 x 16 in	361	Excellent	Trimmed 5.9%
24 x 18 in	319	Excellent	Trimmed 0.3%
30 x 24 in	240	Excellent	Trimmed 5.9%
40 x 30 in	191	Good	Trimmed 0.3%
48 x 36 in	159	Good	Trimmed 0.3%

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
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

7,679 x 5,778 px, srgb, Adobe RGB (1998)

Tone

Darks 84, lights 217 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

133.45

Notes

Colour profile Adobe RGB (1998), converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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