The Tower
The Orloj, Photographed — c. 1880
The medieval clock as the nineteenth century saw it.
- Work
- Albumen print of the Prague astronomical clock
- Maker
- František Fridrich
- Date
- c. 1865–1880
- Held by
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-F-F16054)
- License
- CC0
- Master
- 4572×5548px
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
The Prague Orloj — running since 1410, the oldest astronomical clock still working — caught in an albumen photograph by František Fridrich, the great documentarian of nineteenth-century Prague. The camera that would eventually replace the engraver here pays its respects to the machine that preceded them both. The Rijksmuseum's scan is sharp enough to read the dial's three simultaneous time systems: Old Czech hours, German hours, and the courses of the sun and moon. The town clock outlived every technology sent to record it.
See it on your wall
The mechanism, made for a room
The Orloj, Photographed — c. 1880 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 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-F-F16054), served under the institution’s stated license (CC0) — 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: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-F-F16054) — 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.
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