- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2007.189
- People
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Jost Amman, Swiss (Zurich, Switzerland 1539 - 1591 Nuremberg, Germany)
- Title
- Wenzel Jamnitzer: Goldsmith, Mathematician, Designer of Instruments
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1572-1575
- Culture
- Swiss
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/321130
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Etching on off-white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 16.7 × 25.3 cm (6 9/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
sheet: 16.9 × 25.5 cm (6 5/8 × 10 1/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: coat-of-arms Nuremberg (similar to Briquet 921, Nuremberg 1591)
- Provenance
- [Daniela Laube Fine Art, New York] sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2007
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein 137 (Jost Amman, part I)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
- Accession Year
- 2007
- Object Number
- 2007.189
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Susan Dackerman, ed., Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2011), cat. 63 p.264-265, repr
- Exhibition History
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Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/06/2011 - 12/10/2011; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, 01/17/2012 - 04/08/2012
32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/13/2020 - 07/27/2021
The Art and Science of Optics, Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, 11/12/2022 - 03/26/2023
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