Beneath Saturn, riding his chariot across the top of the sheet, the 'children of the planet' go about the lives their star was said to shape — the old, the poor, the diggers and prisoners and gravekeepers, all born under the coldest and slowest of the planets. The 'Children of the Planets' were a favourite subject of the late fifteenth century; this version follows the celebrated German Housebook of around 1480. Each planet got its own crowded scene of the trades and temperaments it governed — a whole sociology drawn from the sky. Saturn's is the bleakest and, to many eyes, the most human: labour, age, and the earth turned over.

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-00461

As chosen: 10 x 8 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	10 x 8 in
Outside size	11.6 x 9.6 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
10 x 8 in	198	Good	Trimmed 0.6%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
14 x 11 in	142 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 12 in	125 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
20 x 16 in	99 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
24 x 18 in	83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
30 x 24 in	66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
40 x 30 in	50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 2,000 x 1,590 px, srgb
Tone: Darks 41, lights 173 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 4.85