EditorialPrecision watch with chronometer, rehearsal mechanism and playing work, Golden men's watch, also chronometer and equipped with a playing work. The dial has a second hand and a chronometer hand. On the outside of the rear floor, the HvB monogram is appl...
EditorialDecanter, ca. 1824?40, Made in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, American, Blown and cut glass, H. 10 5/8 in. (27 cm); Diam. 4 in. (10.2 cm), Glass, The Jersey Glass Company exhibited at the Franklin Institute in 1836 and was awarded a silver med...
EditorialHe was Known Becuase of His Precision, plate eleven from Uruguayan Torture Series. Luis Camnitzer; American, born Germany, 1937. Date: 1983. Dimensions: 240 x 295 mm (image); 247 x 300 mm (plate); 750 x 552 mm (sheet). Color photo-etching from five pla...
EditorialHe was Known Becuase of His Precision, plate eleven from Uruguayan Torture Series. Luis Camnitzer; American, born Germany, 1937. Date: 1983. Dimensions: 240 x 295 mm (image); 247 x 300 mm (plate); 750 x 552 mm (sheet). Color photo-etching from five pla...
EditorialApparatus for treating horse glanders and William Hyde Wollaston's reflective goniometer, to measure the angles of minute crystals with precision. Copperplate engraving after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary o...
EditorialKobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito in 1590. The villa is a triumph of simplicity and precision, a "mirror image of the esoteric Japanese mind".
EditorialSelf-portrait, Study of a Hand and a Pillow (recto); Six Studies of Pillows (verso), 1493, Pen and brown ink, 10 15/16 x 7 15/16 in. (27.8 x 20.2 cm), Drawings, Albrecht D?rer (German, Nuremberg 1471?1528 Nuremberg), In this extraordinary series of stu...
EditorialTerracotta olpe (jug), Archaic, ca. 550?525 B.C., Etruscan, Terracotta; black-figure, H. with handle 7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm), Vases, Heraldic lions flanking a stylized palmette design. The conventional subject on this jug is executed with expert precision ...
EditorialTerracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine), Archaic, ca. 520?510 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 11 7/8 in. (30.20 cm), Vases, Around the body, hoplites(foot soldiers) mounted on dolphins. This procession of identically dressed foot sold...
EditorialDecanter, ca. 1824?40, Made in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, American, Blown and cut glass, H. 10 5/8 in. (27 cm); Diam. 4 in. (10.2 cm), Glass, The Jersey Glass Company exhibited at the Franklin Institute in 1836 and was awarded a silver med...
EditorialApparatus for treating horse glanders and William Hyde Wollaston's reflective goniometer, to measure the angles of minute crystals with precision. Copperplate engraving after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary o...
EditorialObservations under the microscope: the regular precision of a spider's cobweb 1, and the irregular needlework of a Belgian lacemaker 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807....