
The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament and the New (the "Wicked Bible")
1631 · Letterpress printing on paper
Bible Society's Library
Artworks made the seventeenth century. 34 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

c. 1695 · Wood case and soundboard
Musical Instruments Museum

1688 · Spruce top
Smithsonian Institution

1602 · Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

1611 · Letterpress printing in black letter
Kislak Center for Special Collections

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

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

c. 1607-1624 · Black carbon ink
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

c. 1677-80 · Case
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c. 1665 · Oil on canvas
Mauritshuis
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