The Zodiac
Capricornus
The sea goat, from the most charming star cards of their century.
- Chart
- Urania's Mirror
- Plate
- Plate 25
- Astronomer
- Sidney Hall
- Date
- 1825
- Held by
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · via Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Plate 25 of Urania's Mirror, a set of 32 constellation cards engraved by Sidney Hall and published in London by Samuel Leigh; this copy, an etching coloured by hand on layered paper board, dates from about 1825. Capricornus is the sea goat, half goat and half fish, one of the twelve constellations of the zodiac and one of Ptolemy's 48, set in the stretch of sky called the Sea among Aquarius, Pisces and the other water figures. The cards followed Alexander Jamieson's Celestial Atlas, and each was pierced at its stars so it could be held to a light. Peter Hingley counted the set among the most charming of its century.
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Capricornus 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 Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · 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.
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