The Constellations
Gloria Frederici, Andromeda and Triangula
A crown for Frederick the Great, pierced to shine against a lamp.
- Chart
- Urania's Mirror
- Plate
- Plate 5
- 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 5 of Urania's Mirror, a set of 32 constellation cards published in London by Samuel Leigh of 18 Strand, in this copy of about 1825: an etching, coloured by hand, on layered paper board. Each card is pierced at its stars, the holes sized to their brightness, so that held up to a lamp the constellation shines through. This one carries Andromeda; Triangula, a pair of triangles of faint stars; and Gloria Frederici, the glory of Frederick, which Johann Bode set in the sky in 1787 for Frederick the Great, king of Prussia. It is no longer in use. The engraving is by Sidney Hall.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Gloria Frederici, Andromeda and Triangula 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.
