Collection · 326 pieces

The Study Wall

Maps, plates and diagrams: the pieces you look up at between thoughts.

From Cabinet of Curiosities 21The Firmament 14Cartographer’s Dream 12The Complication 10 and 2 more houses

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The Timber Rattlesnake

Mark Catesby

Plate, 1731–1743

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The Ninth Key

Matthaeus Merian the Elder, engraver (text attributed to Basilius Valentinus)

Engraving, Late 17th century; text tradition traced to ca. 1599

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The Orloj, Engraved — 1837

after Czermak / Kandler

Engraving of the Prague astronomical clock, 1837

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A Skeleton, from the Osteographia

William Cheselden

Plate, 1733

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The Body at Life Size

Paolo Mascagni

Plate, 1823–1831

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Garden Parsley

Elizabeth Blackwell

Plate, 1737–1739

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Rosemary

Elizabeth Blackwell

Plate, 1737–1739

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Mint

Elizabeth Blackwell

Plate, 1737–1739

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The Fourth Muscle Man

Andreas Vesalius (woodcut, Basel workshop of Johannes Oporinus)

Woodcut, 1543

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The First Pendulum Clock

Christiaan Huygens

Plate, 1673

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Horologium Oscillatorium — Title Leaf

Christiaan Huygens

Plate, 1673

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A Bracket Clock Movement

after Abraham Rees (ed.)

Plate, c. 1810s

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Voyage Fait par Ordre du Roi, 1768–1769

Ferdinand Berthoud

Plate, 1768–1769

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A Berthoud Sea Watch, Engraved

after Ferdinand Berthoud

Engraving, 18th century

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De Vick’s Clock of 1379

after Abraham Rees (ed.)

Plate, c. 1810s

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An Anatomical Tableau

after Frederik Ruysch

Plate, early 18th c.

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Coronelli's Celestial Globe Gores

Vincenzo Coronelli

Plate, c. 1693

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Pieces

The Timber Rattlesnake

The Ninth Key

The Orloj, Engraved — 1837

A Skeleton, from the Osteographia

The Body at Life Size

Garden Parsley

Rosemary

Mint

The Fourth Muscle Man

The First Pendulum Clock

Horologium Oscillatorium — Title Leaf

A Bracket Clock Movement

Voyage Fait par Ordre du Roi, 1768–1769

A Berthoud Sea Watch, Engraved

De Vick’s Clock of 1379

An Anatomical Tableau

Coronelli's Celestial Globe Gores