Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs
Johannes Hevelius, 1690
$123
Print check at 14 x 11 in: 150 dpi, good. Trimmed 4.5% 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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Canes Venatici — the Hunting Dogs, Asterion and Chara, straining on a leash held by the herdsman Boötes — has no ancient pedigree at all: Johannes Hevelius introduced it himself in this 1690 atlas, filling empty sky between Ursa Major and Boötes that older constellation catalogues had simply left blank. It is one of several constellations Hevelius invented wholesale, and one of the few still in official use today, a rare case of a single 17th-century astronomer's naming choice outliving every rival system proposed since. What to notice: the dense field of stars marking Ursa Major's haunch at left is the same Great Bear that anchors this room's al-Sufi plates, drawn eight centuries and one visual convention apart — a chance to see how differently two astronomical traditions rendered the identical patch of sky.
- Maker
- Johannes Hevelius
- Date
- 1690
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00268
| Picture | 14 x 11 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 15.6 x 12.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | 206 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.3% |
| 14 x 11 in | 150 | Good | Trimmed 4.5% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | 137 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | 103 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | 91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | 68 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 45 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,200 x 1,650 px, srgb, sRGB IEC61966-2.1
- Tone
- Darks 130, lights 237 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 54.16
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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