The Constellations
Draco, the Dragon
The dragon coiled around the pole.
- Chart
- The constellation Draco
- Astronomer
- After Bayer / Hevelius / Flamsteed
- Date
- engraved 16th–18th c.
- Held by
- The great celestial atlases · Linda Hall Library
Finish
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
A great dragon winding between the two Bears, coiled around the very pole of the heavens — the monster Ladon, who guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides until Hercules slew him. Thousands of years ago its star Thuban, not Polaris, was the North Star the Egyptians steered their pyramids by. A serpent draped across the roof of the turning sky.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Draco, the Dragon 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 The great celestial atlases · Linda Hall Library — 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.
