Draco and Ursa Minor - Sidney Hall, 1825. (Historical Wall Art)
This vintage print has a warm parchment look and soft color that stays calm on the wall. The dragon shape is bold and easy to spot from across the room, so it works nicely as wall art in a study, office, or reading corner. It fits naturally with vintage home decor and other art prints that feel old-book and detailed.
About this art print
This print comes from Urania’s Mirror, a boxed set of constellation cards engraved by Sidney Hall in the early 1800s. The goal was simple: help people learn the night sky at home. That is why the artwork sits under the stars like a second layer. You get a real chart you can follow, but it still feels like an illustration from a story.
This card pairs two constellations from the northern sky. Draco winds across the page like a long dragon, while Ursa Minor sits smaller beside it. Ursa Minor matters because it leads you to Polaris, the North Star, which people have used for direction for a very long time. In the original Urania’s Mirror cards, the stars were often marked with tiny holes, so the pattern could “shine” when light passed through, turning learning into something you could understand at a glance.
If you like that old habit of turning the sky into something readable, The Selenic Shadowdial (Athanasius Kirchner, 1646.) continues the same idea, but shifts from star patterns to the Moon’s cycle, laid out as a clear spiral diagram.
Craft & finish
This Draco and Ursa Minor art print is made on hand-processed paper, highlighted with subtle gold and sealed with beeswax for an authentic parchment feel. Please note that colors can look slightly different from screen to screen.
You can find more pieces like this in our Vintage Art collection.
Draco and Ursa Minor (Sidney Hall, 1825.) - Vintage Art Print
In case your print creases during the travel, as it usually does travel for some time, you can safely warm it up with a hair-dryer, and the wax will melt back right into it. You can also use a lighter, which is a much faster method, but be careful to keep the flame either above the paper or parallel to it (which means holding the paper vertically) so it doesn't smudge or even catch fire. The chance of the print actually creasing is very small, as they are rolled in bubble-wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. Also, be sure to keep the print out of the direct sunlight, as it can melt or fade.
Visit the link below to see more about how our replicas are made, how to display them, and repair the damage:
https://www.artifex-replicas.com/post/about-our-parchment-replicas
