The Zodiac
Aquarius, the Water-Bearer
The cup-bearer of the gods.
- Chart
- The constellation Aquarius
- Astronomer
- Johann Bayer
- Date
- 1655 edition of 1603
- Held by
- David Rumsey Map Collection · via Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons
Finish
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
The Water-Bearer, pouring an endless stream from his urn — often named as Ganymede, the beautiful youth carried up to Olympus by Zeus to serve as cup-bearer to the gods. He pours his water across a region of sky the ancients called the Sea, thick with watery constellations. (For those born about January 20 – February 18.)
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Aquarius, the Water-Bearer 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 David Rumsey Map Collection · via Internet Archive and 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.
