The Southern Star Hemisphere
Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, 1742
$235
Print check at 24 x 16 in: 160 dpi, good. Trimmed 4.6% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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The southern sky was the last frontier of the star atlas — invisible from Europe, filled in only as ships carried astronomers below the equator. Doppelmayr gathers that far hemisphere into a single magnificent disc, its stars threaded through the newer constellations the voyagers named: the Peacock, the Toucan, the Telescope, the Southern Cross. Engraved at colossal size and framed with a Baroque cartouche, it is the grand companion to the northern heavens — the half of the sky most of the world's mapmakers had never once seen with their own eyes.
- Maker
- Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr
- Date
- 1742
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- Published Nuremberg · David Rumsey Map Collection
- Credit
- Published Nuremberg · David Rumsey Map Collection
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00983
| Picture | 24 x 16 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 25.6 x 17.6 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 | 320 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.6% |
| 16 x 12 in | 223 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.8% |
| 18 x 12 in | 213 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.6% |
| 24 x 16 in | 160 | Good | Trimmed 4.6% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | 149 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | 128 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 106 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | 89 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 74 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 64 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,840 x 2,683 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 80, lights 219 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 303.2
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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