Scorpio
Sidney Hall, 1825
$150
Print check at 12 x 18 in: 198 dpi, good. Trimmed 4.5% 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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Scorpio, from Sidney Hall's Urania's Mirror (1825), gives the zodiac constellation a full articulated body — jointed tail curled to strike, claws spread wide across the neighboring boundary with Libra (a sign the ancients once considered Scorpio's own claws before Libra was carved out as separate). Antares, the star marking the scorpion's heart, is labeled by its old alternate name Cor Scorpii and shines as one of the sky's brightest red supergiants — bright enough that ancient astronomers across multiple cultures independently named it 'rival of Mars' for its ruddy color. What to notice: like every Urania's Mirror card, the stars aren't just labeled but pierced through the card itself, so held up to a lamp, Scorpio's whole articulated body would glow with actual starlight in its true positions.
- 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-00264
| Picture | 12 x 18 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 13.6 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 297 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.5% |
| 12 x 16 in | 207 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.9% |
| 12 x 18 in | 198 | Good | Trimmed 4.5% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 148 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 138 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 119 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 99 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 69 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 59 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,494 x 3,573 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 94, lights 249 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 1.05
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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