The Planetary Mounts of the Hand
Engraver unknown, c. 1650
$90
Print check at 12 x 8 in: 213 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 1.6% 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 palm with the seven planetary 'mounts' raised and labelled — Venus at the thumb, the Moon opposite, Jupiter, Saturn, Sol, and Mercury along the fingers — the fleshy pads by which chiromancers sorted a hand's supposed character. This diagram distils the planetary side of palmistry into a single clean map. Like the whole tradition it belongs to the long history of reading the body as a sign-system, an idea that ran from antiquity into the nineteenth century. Shown as history and design: a picture of how people once organised the hand into meaning, precise and orderly, and none the less a belief for all its precision.
- Maker
- Engraver unknown
- Date
- c. 1650
- Medium of the original
- Engraving
- Original held by
- Wellcome Collection, London
- Credit
- Wellcome Collection, London
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00469
| Picture | 12 x 8 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 13.6 x 9.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | 213 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.6% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | 142 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 106 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | 85 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 71 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,600 x 1,705 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 35, lights 246 of 255; 0.1% clipped light, 0.4% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 47.47
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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