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1516 · Woodcut with letterpress text on twelve...
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Jay I.
1507, in a printing of the sheets whose date is disputed · Woodcut with letterpress text on twelve...
1514 · Engraving on laid paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
690 AH / 1291 CE · Brass
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Islamic Art
1586 · Steel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Arms and...
c. 9th - 11th century AD, most often placed around AD 1000... · Cameo-cut glass
Corning Museum of Glass
1133/34 CE · Red silk samite dyed with kermes
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Weltliche Schatzkammer
644 AH / 1246-47 CE · Brass
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
19 June 1878 · Sequence of wet-collodion glass-plate...
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division...
1888 · Gelatin silver print from a dry-plate glass...
Museum of the City of New York, New York
1813 · Wool bunting
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution...
Late 7th to early 8th century AD · Cast and gilt silver with individually made...
National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology, Kildare Street...
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