The Atelier
A Clock Face and Its Mechanism
The dial above, the truth below.
- Work
- Engraving, Wellcome Collection
- Maker
- Unknown engraver
- Date
- 18th–19th century
- Held by
- Wellcome Collection, London (V0023843)
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Master
- 2300×3033px
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
Two registers, one machine: the clock face composed and public at the top of the sheet, and beneath it the train of wheels that makes the composure possible. The engraving's honesty is the point — a dial is a promise, and a movement is how the promise is kept. Plates like this taught the reading public what lived behind the hands, gear by labelled gear, and the Wellcome Collection's scan is fine enough that every hatched shadow in the wheelwork holds at print size.
See it on your wall
The mechanism, made for a room
A Clock Face and Its Mechanism 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 Wellcome Collection, London (V0023843), served under the institution’s stated license (CC BY 4.0) — 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: Wellcome Collection, London (V0023843) — 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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