The Zodiac
Leo, the Lion
The lion Hercules could not wound.
- Chart
- The constellation Leo
- 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 Nemean Lion, whose golden hide no weapon could pierce, until Hercules strangled it with his bare hands as the first of his twelve labours. Easy to find and regal in form, the Lion crouches with the bright star Regulus — "the little king" — at his heart. (For those born about July 23 – August 22.)
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Leo, the Lion 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.
