
The Vinland Map
1411-1468 · Ink
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts and books. 81 artworks recorded, across 5 kinds, each with a cited chain of ownership.

1411-1468 · Ink
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

1513 · Ink and pigment in eight colors on...
Topkapi Palace Museum Library, Istanbul

1826 · Heliograph
Harry Ransom Center

c. 1200 · Brown ink
Austrian National Library

1562-1567 · Hand-copied text in red and black ink on...
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland

April 1867 · Albumen silver print from a wet collodion...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1515 · Woodcut on paper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1838 · Daguerreotype
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, Germany

1493 · Letterpress on paper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
One artwork and its story every Tuesday, with the picture: who owned it, what it made, and what closes soon in the exhibition calendar. No promotion, and nothing we cannot cite.
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