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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.162
People
Unidentified Artist
Style of Jost Amman, Swiss (Zurich, Switzerland 1539 - 1591 Nuremberg, Germany)
Title
Distance Calculator
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1641
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/29110

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 13.9 × 10.3 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/16 in.)
sheet: 16 × 12.5 cm (6 5/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right, graphite: 57
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: APG10348
  • collector's mark: verso, center, blue ink: shape of cat head (M over C, mark of Marjorie Cohn, not in Lugt) [center, handwritten, graphite:] 97

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn, 1997 gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2024

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Marjorie B. Cohn and Martin Cohn in honor of Jason Koczela
Accession Year
2024
Object Number
2024.162
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paper Worlds: Printing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, exh. cat., Harvard University and The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 47-49, repr. p. 48

Exhibition History

  • Paper Worlds: Printing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Cambridge, 05/04/2010 - 08/27/2010

Verification Level

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