Cepheus
A mythical king of Ethiopia, crowned in gold and pierced with real stars.
- Work
- Urania's Mirror — Cepheus, Plate 4
- Artist / naturalist
- Sidney Hall
- Origin & date
- London, 1825
- Held by
- Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and keep.
Size
$19.00
The story
From Sidney Hall's Urania's Mirror (1825), this card gives King Cepheus — husband to Cassiopeia and father to Andromeda in the same family of Greek myth constellations — his crown, scepter, and royal robes rendered in hand-applied color, every named star along his figure pierced through the card stock at its true celestial position. Cepheus circles perpetually near the north celestial pole and never sets below the horizon at mid-northern latitudes, a fact the plate's compass rose and polar star label (Alruccabah) both point toward. What to notice: this card belongs to the same domestic myth cluster as the Andromeda card elsewhere in this room — Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Perseus, and Andromeda were, to the Regency-era public buying these cards, a single continuous story told across four separate pieces of the sky.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Wikimedia Commons’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper: smooth, no glare.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guarantee.
