The Tower
The Orloj, Engraved — 1837
Prague’s astronomical clock in the age of the print.
- Work
- Engraving of the Prague astronomical clock
- Maker
- After Czermak / Kandler
- Date
- 1837
- Held by
- via Wikimedia Commons (PD-old)
- License
- Public domain
- Master
- 1111×1600px
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
Sizes are capped to what this piece’s real source scan honestly supports — we never enlarge past the engraving.
$29.00
The story
Before the photograph, the print: the Orloj engraved in 1837, its tower and dials rendered in the crisp romantic line of the Biedermeier print trade. An astronomical clock is a public complication — a machine that tells a whole square the hour, the calendar, and the state of the heavens at once — and the engraver treats it accordingly, as portraiture. Paired with Fridrich's photograph of a generation later, it makes a small history of how we looked at the same machine.
See it on your wall
The mechanism, made for a room
The Orloj, Engraved — 1837 printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of an open-access work held by via Wikimedia Commons (PD-old), served under the institution’s stated license (Public domain) — source linked below.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- The artwork is never cropped and never enlarged past its scan — sizes stop where the engraving stops holding.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Source: via Wikimedia Commons (PD-old) — the scan this reproduction is printed from, and the page documenting its public-domain / open-access status. We are unaffiliated with any watch manufacturer, past or present.
