Accession No

1641

Brief Description

print showing armillary sphere and orrery, by Tobias Conrad Lotter, German, 1774

Origin

Germany; Augsburg

Maker

Lotter, Tobias Conrad

Class

prints; astronomy

Earliest Date

1774

Latest Date

1774

Inscription Date

1774

Material

paper; wood; glass

Dimensions

breadth 620mm; height 530mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Catalogue 10, Maps, at Weinreb & Douwma Ltd.; 93 Great Russell Street; London WC1, in 1973.

Inscription

‘Tobias Conrad Lotter, Geogr: excud: Augustae Vindelicorum
1774.’ (top of print)

Description Notes

Print showing armillary sphere and orrery, by Tobias Conrad Lotter, German, 1774.

Black, white and green print showing an armillary sphere on the left and an orrery on the right. Name given in scroll above each instrument: ‘SPHAERA ARMILLARIS’ and ‘Instrumentum artificiale ORRERY ab inventore appellatum’. Below the instrument each one is described in both Latin and German.
Framed.

Complete

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