print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.849
- Title
- Object: Bericht über diesen Ewigwerenden Calender.
- Description
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A broadside with a perpetual calendar; with an engraving showing four dials surrounded by drapery and allegorical figures; with engraved inscriptions and numbering and lettering, and with letterpress explanations, including legends, the letterpress framed at three sides with a border of type ornaments, wanting the calendar's volvelles. (Nuremberg, Fürst: ca.1650?)
- Production date
- 1650 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 322 millimetres (engraving)
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Height: 493 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 238 millimetres (engraving)
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Width: 238 millimetres (printed area)
- Curator's comments
- The calendar is lacking the volvelles. However, the display windows of the calendar are not cut out, which suggests that the calendar was never assembled, and that this print may have been a proof.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.849