By Lane's
Located in Milano, IT
Pocket Globe
Lane, London, between 1817 and 1833
The globe is contained in its original case covered with black leather.
Diameter: globe 2.75 in (7 cm); case 3.26 in (8.3 cm).
Weight: 0.28 lb (128 g)
State of conservation: almost excellent. It has some slight abrasions and some signs of use.
The globe is made up of twelve printed paper gores aligned and glued to the sphere. Two pins are inserted on the poles.
In the North Pacific Ocean, above the Tropic of Cancer, the globe bears a cartouche with the inscription:
LANE’S
Improved
GLOBE
LONDON
and, under cartouche
J. Mynde Sc[ulpsit]
On the globe, much of central Africa is empty and the great lakes Tanganyika and Victoria are not marked (Europeans would begin to explore the area after 1858). Australia is still called New Holland (the new name would be introduced in 1829); Tasmania is listed as an island (Matthew Flinders circumnavigates it in 1798). The routes of Cook's and Anson's various voyages are plotted; on the island of Sandwich, between Guinea and Mexico, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the place and date of Cook's killing are reported.
The antipode of London is marked in the south of New Zealand.
The pocket globe was made between 1817 and 1833.
The reconstruction of the history of this dating is due to Elly Dekker (E., Dekker, Globes at Greenwich, Oxford 1999, pp. 128-129).
Around 1757 James Ferguson...
Category
1820s English George IV Antique Lane's Furniture