Majestic Prints

Majestic Printsellers deals in antiquated art prints, celestial charts, world maps, fantastical imagery, medical & scientific quackery. We are purveyors of the obscure, the weird, and the wonderful. Find us at www.majesticprints.co

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The great hall inside the Guildhall, London

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Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,

Before we too into the Dust descend;

Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,

Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and - sans End!

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Alike for those who for today prepare,

And those that after a tomorrow stare,

A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries

"Fools! Your Reward is neither Here nor There!'

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The oracle : compliments of Chase & Sanborn, tea & coffee importers. Advertising pamphlet for W.D. Earnley, advertising Chase & Sanborn coffee. Title from cover. Includes information on palmistry, fortune-telling, horoscopes, superstitions, birthstones and the meaning of dreams. Printed on back: "For sale by W.D. Earnley, 840-842 3rd Ave., Detroit, Mich. Copyright 1897 by the Gray Lith. Co., N.Y."

Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Leon-Maxime Faivre (French, 1856-1941), Gladiators, 1880

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Albrecht Dürer - Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen, 1525.

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Elevation for the Comptoir d’Escompte, Paris

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Behold our exclusive edition of Charles Turner's "A Witch Sailing to Aleppo in A Sieve", an 1807 mezzotint illustration for Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. The print brings to life a moment from Act I, Scene 3, when one of the three witches recounts that a sailor's wife refused to give her a chestnut. The witch plans to sail after the woman's husband and do horrible things to him:

"Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o'th' Tiger;

But in a sieve I'll thither sail,

And like a rat without a tail,

I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do."

Along with a bubbling cauldron, toads, and eye of newt, one would find a sieve in the kitchen of every competent witch. Using their brooms as oars, witches would set sail in sieves and journey over rough waters. Learn more at www.majesticprints.co

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Selene and Endymion by Ubaldo Gandolfi (1770)

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Oh yah! Here’s that bad boy with the ridiculously long and unnecessary title (see previous post, I’m not typing that out again). This amazingly detailed 17th century anemographic, or wind rose chart, is historically significant as it represents a transitional point in the perception of direction, namely the transition from the wind rose to the compass rose. It features a full 32 named winds in Greek, Latin, French, and Dutch. Shop link in bio. “Like” this post and dm for 10% discount code good for your entire purchase. #anemographic #compassrose #fourwinds #nauticalart #sailing #cartography #maps #oldmaps #curiosity #artprint #majestic https://www.instagram.com/p/CY-prt3LBrL/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Karl Friedrich Schinkel was a Prussian state architect, city planner, and painter who also designed furniture, ironworks, and stage sets, most notably for plays by Goethe, and this Masonic inspired image; a star-spangled backdrop for the appearance of the "Königin der Nacht" (Queen of the Night) in an 1815 production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. Subscribe here for 10% OFF http://bit.ly/subscribe2MP #artprint #queenofthenight #stars #celestial #scenerypainting #themagicflute #opera #oldgold #oddities #curiosities https://www.instagram.com/p/CYUzr5yPu3A/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Behold the splendor of "Nature in Descending Regions" from Levi Walter Yaggy's Geographical Portfolio of 1893. The oversized geographical charts contained in the original illustrated atlas are among the most beautiful and impressive charts published in the 1800's. This particular print features pictorially defined depths of the ocean, with geographical and geological features, flora, and fauna.

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Behold this beautiful "Master Mason" lithograph published by Mayer & Co. of New York, featuring a monument of the Weeping Virgin and Father Time before a broken column, and rife with Masonic symbolism.

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An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences, 1887

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Centaurus constellation, from Uranometria (1603) by Johann Bayer

The wolf impaled by the centaur is actually an independent constellation Lupus (Bayer dedicated a separate engraving to it), but was often regarded as just an asterism within Centaurus. The Greeks described a scene on the night sky in which the centaur is about to sacrifice the animal to the gods on the altair, represented by the constellation Ara (which would be on the left in this depiction).

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