Cepheus
Sidney Hall, 1825
$90
Print check at 8 x 12 in: 183 dpi, good. Trimmed 4.6% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Checkout is not open yet. Your cart is saved on this device.
From Sidney Hall's Urania's Mirror (1825), this card gives King Cepheus — husband to Cassiopeia and father to Andromeda in the same family of Greek myth constellations — his crown, scepter, and royal robes rendered in hand-applied color, every named star along his figure pierced through the card stock at its true celestial position. Cepheus circles perpetually near the north celestial pole and never sets below the horizon at mid-northern latitudes, a fact the plate's compass rose and polar star label (Alruccabah) both point toward. What to notice: this card belongs to the same domestic myth cluster as the Andromeda card elsewhere in this room — Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Perseus, and Andromeda were, to the Regency-era public buying these cards, a single continuous story told across four separate pieces of the sky.
- Maker
- Sidney Hall
- Date
- 1825
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00263
| 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 183 | Good | Trimmed 4.6% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | 128 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 122 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 85 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 61 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 51 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 36 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,537 x 2,200 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 103, lights 250 of 255; 0.1% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0.1% vivid
- Sharpness
- 3.6
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
Shipping for this piece to a US address is $24.80, the print room’s own rate, charged per piece. Checkout shows the total before you pay.
Every piece is printed after you order it, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ships from there. For now we ship to US addresses only.
A piece that arrives damaged, misprinted or in the wrong size is replaced at our cost. The details: shipping and returns and replacements.
Cabinet of Curiosities
The old world’s book of wonders, for your wall.
All 69 pieces from Cabinet of Curiosities
