An open palm, its surface covered in symbols — the planets and the signs of the zodiac distributed across the mounts, the lines named, the whole hand oriented to the four quarters like a small map: Oriens, Occidens, Septentrio, Meridies. The drawing comes from an English practical manual of chiromancy dated 1648, written and illustrated by hand rather than printed. Chiromancy read the palm as a text the body had written; whether it read anything real is not the point here. We hang the plate as history: a careful, confident anatomy of a belief, drawn with the same seriousness a botanist would give a leaf.

Maker: Manuscript hand, unknown
Date: 1648
Medium of the original: Plate
Original held by: Wellcome Collection, London
Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00467

As chosen: 8 x 12 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	8 x 12 in
Outside size	9.6 x 13.6 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
8 x 12 in	216	Excellent	Trimmed 0.7%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
12 x 18 in	144 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
16 x 24 in	108 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
20 x 30 in	86 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
24 x 36 in	72 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
40 x 60 in	43 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

1,746 x 2,600 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 0, lights 221 of 255; 0% clipped light, 5.3% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

25.32

Notes

Shadows clip on 5% of the image: the darkest areas print as solid black
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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