The Constellations
Cetus, the Sea-Monster
The whale-beast of myth, from the last great hand-drawn atlas.
- Chart
- Uranographia
- Astronomer
- Johann Elert Bode
- Date
- 1801
- Held by
- Published Berlin · Wikimedia Commons
Finish
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Johann Bode's Uranographia of 1801 is the grand finale of the age of artful star atlases — the largest, most crowded, most ambitious of them all, mapping thousands more stars than any predecessor before science traded beauty for bare precision. His Cetus is the sea-monster of Andromeda's myth, coiling across a teeming field of stars, drawn with a late, delicate hand. After Bode, the figures faded from the charts and the constellations became mere lines. This is very nearly the last time the old gods and beasts were allowed to sprawl in full glory across the sky.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Cetus, the Sea-Monster 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 Published Berlin · 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.
