Under the Moon in her chariot, her children pursue the watery, wandering trades she was thought to rule — millers and fishermen, fowlers and bathers, gamblers and travellers, and those who work by night. This 'Children of Luna' follows the tradition of the German Housebook of about 1480, one plate in a set that gave each of the seven planets a bustling scene of the people and pursuits it governed. It is astrology as social portrait: the sky sorted humanity into seven kinds, and the artists drew each kind at work and play. The Moon's, fittingly, is full of water — rivers, mills, and a world in motion.

Maker: The Master of the Housebook (attributed)
Date: c. 1480
Medium of the original: Plate
Original held by: Medieval Housebook of Wolfegg Castle · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Medieval Housebook of Wolfegg Castle · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00462

As chosen: 8 x 12 in, art print, classic frame
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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	200	Excellent	Trimmed 7.6%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 23% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 22% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
12 x 18 in	133 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 23% crop
16 x 24 in	100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
20 x 30 in	80 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 23% crop
24 x 36 in	66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
40 x 60 in	40 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

1,602 x 2,600 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 77, lights 255 of 255; 7.5% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

10.3

Notes

Pure white on 8% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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