Monumental clock

Monumental clock is a street clock. It is recorded from 1977.

Also recorded as Zebra clock; Monumentale klok.

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Catalogued works

4 works under this name are catalogued by Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1890 to 2019.

A man sits in solitude on the ledge of an open window with his head leaning on his arm with a clock to the right and the word 'SIDA' below; an advertisement about AIDS discrimination by the Comissão Nacional de Luta Contra a SIDA. Colour lithograph by Publicis Ciesa, ca. 1996., dated [1996?], held by Wellcome Collection. Chasing the sun : the new science of sunlight and how it shapes our bodies and minds / Linda Geddes., dated 2019, held by Wellcome Collection. Henry Wellcome Letter Book 4 ['Letter Book HSW Personal 2'], dated Nov 1896 - Jan 1899, held by Wellcome Collection. Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3'], dated Mar 1890 - Nov 1896, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 8 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

3 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

The itty-bitty time machine genetics of the cyanobacterial circadian clock., Adv Genet. The sympathy of two pendulum clocks: beyond Huygens' observations., Sci Rep. On the timing of eukaryotic origin., Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 3 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)) and 3 biomedical publications indexed (PubMed (National Library of Medicine)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 3 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 3 means 3 genuinely separate publishers of record. 15 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

It is recorded as the work of Jaap Karman.

It is associated with Netherlands. The record gives 1977 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Recorded genres are pop art and public art.

It is recorded in the collection of Koningin Julianaplein.

Chronology

  1. 1890Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3'] (Wellcome Collection).
  2. 1896Henry Wellcome Letter Book 4 ['Letter Book HSW Personal 2'] (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 1977Monumental clock first recorded.
  4. 1996A man sits in solitude on the ledge of an open window with his head leaning on his arm with a clock to the right and the word 'SIDA' below; an advertisement about AIDS discrimination by the Comissão Nacional de Luta Contra a SIDA. Colour lithograph by Publicis Ciesa, ca. 1996. (Wellcome Collection).
  5. 2019Chasing the sun : the new science of sunlight and how it shapes our bodies and minds / Linda Geddes. (Wellcome Collection).

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    PubMed, United States National Library of Medicine, records for “Monumental clock”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 8 works naming Monumental clock.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  3. 3.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q23048858: Monumental clock

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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  4. 4.

    “Zebra clock”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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