The Constellations
Corvus, the Raven
Apollo's raven, as Augsburg engraved it in 1603.
- Chart
- Uranometria
- Astronomer
- Johann Bayer
- Date
- 1603
- Held by
- raremaps.com · via Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
A chart from Johann Bayer's Uranometria, published in Augsburg in 1603 by Christoph Mang. Corvus is the raven, a bird of the stories told about the god Apollo, set in the sky perched on the back of Hydra, the water snake. Ptolemy listed it in the second century, and it is one of the 88 constellations still recognised. Its four brightest stars make a quadrilateral, a small kite-shape low in the southern sky. Bayer took the positions from Tycho Brahe's catalogue, and the plates were engraved in copper by Alexander Mair. The letters Bayer gave these stars are still in use: Gamma Corvi, called Gienah, is the brightest of them.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Corvus, the Raven printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by raremaps.com · via Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. Framed pieces sit in a box frame under acrylic, with no mount (gold-ink editions on specialist press).
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our charts cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the gold figures, the tiny stars, the cartouches — on a matte sheet that shows every line without glare.
