Henning (Veit Balthasar) [Perpetual Almanac], a wall calendar with two large volvelles fastened with a painted tin button, central panel headed Almanac Perpetuel, extensively hand-coloured in gouache heightened with varnish with floral sprays in a baroque framework, on two sheets of pasteboard, overall 334 x 210mm., partly engraved and partly drawn in ink, embroidered date 1750 with the initial L (?for Louis XV) in an inset oval fabric panel at top, hanging loop, a few small losses at edges, several rubbed spots and surface cracks, Nuremberg, 1750.

⁂ The Nuremberg engraver and art dealer Veit Henning (1707-1762) is known to have produced versions of this almanac in different languages, advertised in his catalogue "Sammlung nutzlicher Maschinen und Instrumenten" published in five parts, 1747-1752. Cut out windows on the volvelles reveal the month, day of the week, feast day, zodiac sign, time of sunrise and sunset and length of day and night. See: Ernst Zinner, Deutsche und niederlandische astronomische Instrumente des 11.-18. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1979, p.372, describing an example with Latin title.