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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26551
People
Jost Amman, Swiss (Zurich, Switzerland 1539 - 1591 Nuremberg, Germany)
Title
The Ptolemaic System
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Barthélemy de Chasseneuz, Catalogus Gloriae Mundi [Catalogue of the glory of the world], Frankfurt: Sigmund Feyerabend, 1579
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1579
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/5326

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and engraving on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
plate: 27.3 x 36.5 cm (10 3/4 x 14 3/8 in.)
sheet: 28.6 x 41 cm (11 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.)
frame: 45.1 x 59.1 cm (17 3/4 x 23 1/4 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein vol. 5, part 6, no. 144.29

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Jakob Rosenberg Fund
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
M26551
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Susan Dackerman, ed., Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2011), cat. 21 p.112-113, repr.

Exhibition History

  • 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

Verification Level

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