Clocks & Hourglasses
Clocks
More information on the history of clockmaking with Oliver Cooke, a horological curator at the British Musum can be found on YouTube.
"Time-Keeping Device" from manuscript on mechanical devices by al-Jazari (LACMA M.73.5.572). Syria or Egypt - early 14th C.
Book-shaped clock (Private collection). Austria - 16th C.
Globe clock (Kunstgewerbemuseum K 4605). Germany - end of 16th C.
Table clock (V&A Museum 2375-1855). 1526-75
Drum clock (V&A Museum M.176-1938). 1540
Drum clock (Louvre OA 8282). France - 1540-60
Table clock (British Museum 1958,1006.2111). 1545-55
Alarm clock (British Museum 1888,1201.109). Germany - 1549
Table clock with sundial and compass by Steffen Brenner (National Museum NMK 972/1895). 1553
Drum clock (Louvre OA 7018). Germany - 1550-75
Spherical clock (Louvre OA 7019). France - 1551
Astronomical clock by Francis Nowe (V&A M.39:1 to 6-1959). England - 1588
Drum clock (V&A Museum 379-1906). France - 1560-80
Portrait of a Man Pointing at a Table Clock by Anthonis Mor van Dashorst (Louvre INV 1582; MR 880). 1565
Table clock (McCord Stewart Museum Montreal 1982.81). Germany - 1566-1600
Table clock (V&A Museum 9035-1863). Germany - 1567
Watch (Ashmolean WA1974.203). Germany - 1570
Alarm clock (British Museum 1901,0115.1). Germany - 1570-80
Weight-driven clock (British Museum 1954,1105.1). Switzerland - 1570-80
Table clock (British Museum 1888,1201.126). England - 1575-85
Alarm table clock (V&A Museum M.174-1938). Netherlands - 1575-1600
Nef (British Museum 1866,1030.1). Germany - 1580-90
Watch (Kunstgewerbemuseum 1899,178). Germany - 1580-90
Table clock (National Museum OK-03894). 1580-99
30-hour clock (British Museum 1958,1006.2097). Germany - 1580-1600
Hexagonal table clock by Jacques Borlion (V&A Museum M.173-1938). France - 1580-1600
Table clock (V&A Museum M.141-1913). Germany - 1581
Mechanical globe clock (V&A Museum 246-1865). Germany - 1584
Fortuna clock (V&A Museum 2379-1855). Germany - 1585-1600
Table clock by Petrus Dober (National Museum NMK CXV 159). 1587
Book-shaped clock (Louvre OA 10777). Austria - 1592
Domed table clock (Louvre OA 10046). Germany - 1594
Table clock (Louvre OA 672). Germany - 1598
Table clock (V&A Museum 2375-1855). France - 1600
Hourglasses
Arítmetíque by Etienne Delaune (V&A Museum 22746:1). France - pre-1573
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