
The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament and the New (the "Wicked Bible")
1631 · Letterpress printing on paper
Bible Society's Library, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge
Artworks made the seventeenth century. 29 recorded, each with a cited chain of ownership. The era is read from the year on each record; the record's own date line is what counts.

1631 · Letterpress printing on paper
Bible Society's Library, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge

c. 1695 · Wood case and soundboard
Musical Instruments Museum

1688 · Spruce top
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History

c. 1663-1666 · Oil on canvas
Unlocated. Stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum...

1602 · Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.

1611 · Letterpress printing in black letter
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and...

c. 1615-17 · Oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Seventeenth century · Knotted pile
Museum of Islamic Art

1632 · Carrara marble
Galleria Borghese, Rome

c. 1690 · Ebony veneer over a carcase
Cleveland Museum of Art, Gallery 215

1623 · Letterpress printing on laid paper
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Weston Library

Mined in India, probably at the Kollur workings in the... · Type IIb boron-bearing diamond
Smithsonian Institution
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