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Calendar, Calendrier Perpétual
This is a Calendar. It is dated 1790–1800 and we acquired it in 1945. Its medium is brush and watercolor over engraving on light blue laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Medieval calendars of saints days were "perpetual," since the system of dominical letters allowed their use in any year. When calendars were adopted for secular use, they were designed more as earthly timetables than devotional guides. Perpetual calendars of this more specific sort came into fashion in France in the course of the eighteenth century.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
Its dimensions are
35.6 x 27.0 cm (14 x 10 5/8 in. )
It has the following markings
Watermark: ICB/PARTEDON
Cite this object as
Calendar, Calendrier Perpétual; France; brush and watercolor over engraving on light blue laid paper; 35.6 x 27.0 cm (14 x 10 5/8 in. ); Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane; 1945-18-3
