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The outside of this compass is engraved with a dial, with a circular brass pointer and a mariner's compass. The inside is engraved with a table of latitudes, various dials, and the signs of the Zodiac. \nSimilar pieces were produced at that time in Dieppe by the Bloud family and others, but this compass is even more similar to sundials produced in Nuremberg. The crowns seen on this sundial (one on the inside, and two on the outside) correspond with the marks on other compasses produced by the Reinmann family of Nuremberg.","physicalDescription":"The inner faces of this folding compass are painted with a table of latitudes of various German and other centres, written with seventeenth century German spellings: Danzig, Lübeck, Stettin, Littau, Lithuania, Königsberg, Wittenberg, Torún, Antwerp, London, Prague, Cologne, Paris, Heidelberg, Worms, Speyer, Vienna. The signs of the zodiac are included, and a mariner's compass, with an inscription. A stylized townscape of houses and spires amidst fenced green fields, and floral and fruit motifs decorate the lid and base. The designs and inscriptions are coloured in green, brown, red, blue and black.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Hans Reinmann II","id":"AUTH348385"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"Attributed to\r\n\r\nFormerly attributed to Leonhart (Lienhart) Miller (active 1594-1653)"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"ivory","id":"AAT11857"},{"text":"brass","id":"AAT10946"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Ivory, partly painted and gilded, with gilt brass fittings","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"},{"text":"Scientific instruments","id":"THES49042"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2012FH0153","2012FH0157","2012FH0423","2013GD2262","2017KB2096"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"111","id":"THES49918"},"free":"","case":"CA8","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Compass","id":""}],[{"text":"Sundial","id":"AAT41614"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Nuremberg","id":"x29057"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca.1600-1625","earliest":"1595-01-01","latest":"1625-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Alfred Williams Hearn Gift","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"1.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"6.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"10.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Similar pieces were produced at that date in Dieppe by the Bloud family and others, but this compass is even more similar to those produced in Nuremberg, especially the work of the Reinmann workshop, who inscribed crowns on the sundials they produced. This one has one crown on the inside, and two on the outside.\r\n\r\nGiven by Mrs Ellen Hearn, Villa St Louis, Menton in 1923; this and other objects presented at the same time were labelled as the Alfred  Williams Hearn gift.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Folding compass and dial, ivory, painted and gilded, attributed to Hans Reinmann II (d.1627), Nuremberg; ca. 1600-25.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Dunn, Richard. Scientific Instruments at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: a Provisional Inventory. <font -u> Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society</font>, 79, 2003, pp. 6-14"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lloyd, S. 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