Shooting Star - From Les Etoiles; Derniere Feerie by Joseph Mery and illustrated by J.J. Grandville, 1847.

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A Black Sun - from 'Splendor Solis' , a 16th century German alchemical manual attributed to Splendor Solis (The Splendour of the Sun) attributed to 'Salomon Trismosin'. This edition (probably 19th century ) is in the Wellcome Collection.

Based on an original watercolour illustration from Splendor Solis ('The Splendour of the Sun'), a German alchemical manual dating from around 1582.

The original of Splendor Solis, which contained seven chapters, appeared in Augsburg. The author of the manuscript was considered to be the legendary Salomon Trismosin, allegedly the teacher of Paracelsus, though the name is believed to be a pseudonym. The work consists of a sequence of 22 elaborate images, set in ornamental borders and niches. The symbolic process shows the classical alchemical death and rebirth of the king, and incorporates a series of seven flasks, each associated with one of the then-known planets. Within the flasks a process is shown involving the transformation of bird and animal symbols into the Queen and King, the white and the red tincture. Although the style of the Splendor Solis illuminations suggest an earlier date, they are clearly of the 16th century.

- Wikipedia

Karl Friedrich Schinkel : The Queen of the Night, set design for Mozart’s 'The Magic Flute' , 1815.

Tiger and Lightning by Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japan, 1847-1915). Japan, late 19th century. Prints; woodcuts LACMA , LA.

The November Meteors by E.L. Trouvelot, 1868. 
A chromolithograph of the November meteors as observed between midnight and 5 a .m. on the night of November 13-14 1868 , from the The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, by Etienne Trouvelot, , published 1882, New York Public Library.

Afterglow by Karl Nordström - Swedish, born 1855, died 1923. Date: 1909.

J.J. Grandville - 'A Comet's Journey'. An illustration from 'Un Autre Monde', 1844.

A shooting star of 'Warner's Safe Yeast' (manufactured by Warner's Safe Yeast Co. of Rochester NY - slogan 'Up with the Sun') is seen through a yeast-container telescope, advertisement from c. 1890.

Aurora Borealis - from the The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, by Etienne Trouvelot, published 1882, New York Public Library 

The Sun - Papierlaternen-Fabrik Riethmüller, Manufacturer’s catalogue, Germany, Kirchheim-Teck , ca. 1880, Artist unknown. Chromolithograph. The Metropolitan Museum of Art , NY.

Sidney Hall : Urania’s Mirror “Capricornus”, plate 25 in Urania's Mirror, a set of celestial cards accompanied by A familiar treatise on astronomy ... by Jehoshaphat Aspin. London. Astronomical chart, 1 print on layered paper board : etching, hand-coloured . Library of Congress - 1824.

John Constable : Sky Study with Rainbow - watercolour on medium, smooth, blued white wove paper, 1827. Yale Center for British Art.

Landscape of the Vernal Equinox (III) Paul Nash - 1944

The rising signs from Solar Biology by Hiram Erastus Butler (1841–1916).

Hiram Erastus Butler (July 29, 1841 - November 3, 1916) was an American esoteric and New Thought writer, the founder of the Genii of Nations, Knowledges, and Religions (G.N.K.R.) and the Esoteric Fraternity.

Wood-inlay image representing chaos magnum, the "great gulf" (Luke 16:26) -
Date c. 1524. By Lotto Capoferri.

Malaysia Palm Trees by Gerry Cranham - February 1980

December 1968 - NYC skyline at sunset, showing Empire State Building, New York by  Gerry Cranham.

The Half Moon by Johan Braakensiek - 1908

Atlas on the Globe, supporting the heavens on his shoulders - 1670 - 1690

Astronomy- eclipses (top), and the Moon's passage around the Earth. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851

Astronomy- a diagram of the Earth's passage around the Sun in a solar year. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851

Astronomy: A Diagram Showing how to Determine Longitude by John Emslie - 1851

Astronomy: The Phases of the Moon by John Emslie - c.1850.

Jeroen on the Hunt by Tinus van Doorn - 1937

Roaring Tiger, Ohara Koson,.

Ohara Koson (小原 古邨, Kanazawa 1877 – Tokyo 1945) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.

Portents of Death and Destruction - 15th Century.

XVIIth International Congress of Medicine: handbook of the Historical Medical Museum organized by Henry S. Wellcome (the Museum of the Section of the History of Medicine), London, 1913, catalogue no. 267, p. 62 (possibly this item, described as "Death, famine and pestilence as forecast by a comet. From a MS of the 15th century") - Wellcome

 Emblem from Atalanta Fugiens by Michael Maier - 1617.

First published in 1617, Michael Maier's alchemical emblem book contains a preface on ancient music and the Greek myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes and consists of 50 engraved emblems, each accompanied by a discourse and an epigram in verse set to music in the form of a fugue for three voices—Atalanta, or the vox fugiens; Hippomenes, or the vox sequens; and Pomum objectum or vox morans. - Science History Institute

Rainbow Obstacle (Hindernis Regenbogen) by Moriz Jung - 1911

Ducks at Full Moon by Ohara Koson.

'World To Come To An End. Stars Falling, 1833' From Upper Canada Sketches by Thomas Conant, 1898.

High-quality Giclée greeting cards.

Our fine art greeting cards are individually printed on 324gsm Mohawk card.

Each card is supplied with a complimentary brown craft paper envelope, which is included with the card within a protective biodegradable OPP bag.

Printed using water based inks. Sustainably sourced paper or wood from sustainable forests.

Vegan-friendly: Contains no animal products.

Can be recycled.

Leonid Meteor Shower Over Niagara Falls -1892

Leonid meteor shower over Niagara Falls - Illustration from Edmund Weiss, Bilder-Atlas der Sternenwelt [Image atlas of the star world], Stuttgart, 1892 via Smithsonian Library Washington DC.

Midnight Sun by Eric Ravilious - 1940

JJ Grandville - Les Etoiles - Astronomie des Dames - 1849

Grandville told his wife on the day he began these 12 designs: "For too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens."

JJ Grandville - Les Etoiles - Astronomie des Dames - 1849

Grandville told his wife on the day he began these 12 designs: "For too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens."

L'Etoile Filante (Shooting Star) by JJ Grandville - 1849

From Les étoiles.

Grandville told his wife on the day he began these 12 designs: "For too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens."

Les Nebuleuses by JJ Grandville - 1849

From Les étoiles.

Grandville told his wife on the day he began these 12 designs: "For too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens."

L'Etoile Fixe by JJ Grandville - 1849

From Les étoiles.

Grandville told his wife on the day he began these 12 designs: "For too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens."

L'Etoile Du Marin (Sailor's Star) by JJ Grandville - 1849

From Les étoiles.

Grandville told his wife on the day he began these 12 designs: "For too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens."

Une Planete et Ses Satellites by JJ Grandville - 1849

From Les étoiles.

Grandville told his wife on the day he began these 12 designs: "For too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens."

L'Etoile du Marin (Sailor's Star) by JJ Grandville - 1849

From Les étoiles.

Grandville told his wife on the day he began these 12 designs: "For too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens."

L'Etoile Du Soir by JJ Grandville - 1849

From Les étoiles.

Grandville told his wife on the day he began these 12 designs: "For too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens."

La Bonne Etoile by JJ Grandville - 1849

From Les étoiles.

Grandville told his wife on the day he began these 12 designs: "For too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens."

La Belle Etoile by JJ Grandville - 1849.

From Les étoiles.

Grandville told his wife on the day he began these 12 designs: "For too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens."

Etoile Du Berger (Evening Star) by JJ Grandville - 1849.

From Les étoiles.

Grandville told his wife on the day he began these 12 designs: "For too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens."

Illustration from Les Etoiles by JJ Grandville, published 1849.

Illustration of La Mauvais Etoile by JJ Grandville - 1849

From Les Etoiles by JJ Grandville, published 1849.

Long-eared owl on bare tree branch Ohara Koson - 1900-1930