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Celestial Table Globe, Charles-François Delamarche, Paris, 1791
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Celestial table globe
Charles-François Delamarche
Paris, 1791
It measures: 17.13 in in height, Ø max 27.7 in; the sphere Ø 7.09 in
(h 43.5 cm x Ø max 27.7 cm; the sphere Ø 18 cm).
Weight: 2.96 lb (1,344 g)
Wood, paper, papier-mâché and metal
It rests on its original turned wooden column base.
State of conservation: there are small, slight gaps, abrasions, stains and cracks due to use and aging.
The globe is made of twelve printed paper gores, juxtaposed and glued onto a sphere composed of a gypsum-based composite material. The meridian circle and the horizon circle are made of wood and covered with printed paper.
The first has the degrees of latitude and the distances from the poles inscribed on it.
The horizon circle, instead, features the names of the zodiac with their related symbols and the months of the year, as well as both cardinal and intercardinal points.
Three separate cartouches appear on the sphere: one above Gemini, another at the North Pole, and a third between the latter and Perseus.
The first contains the inscription:
GLOBE
CELESTE
dans le quel les Etoilles
Fixes sont placées comme
elles sont apresent suivant
les derniers Observatio[ns]
des plus Célèbres
Astronomes de
ce Temps
The second, the northernmost, has a worn and difficult-to-read text, which can be summarized as follows: Cassini (Perinaldo, 1625 - Paris, 1712; Italian scientist naturalized French) calculated that the geographic pole describes a circle around the ecliptic pole over 24,800 years; the circle is drawn on the globe and every 15° marks how many years have passed since 1770, when the celestial pole was in this position.
The third bears the maker’s heading:
A PARIS
Chez le Sieur
Delamarche géo.
Rue du Foin St. Jacq.
au Collège de Me.
Gervais
Across the rest of the surface are depicted the constellations of the so-called "eighth sphere" (the domain of the fixed stars) and the circles that describe it: the equator, the meridian, the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn, the polar circles and the ecliptic. Two examples of this same edition are held respectively at the Museum of the University of Groningen and the Library of the University of Amsterdam (Van der Krogt P. and Dekker E., Globes from the Western World, London 1993, p. 84 and Van der Krogt P., Old Globes in the Netherlands, Utrecht 1984, p. 101).
Charles-François Delamarche (1740-1817) founded his laboratory around 1770 and, in a few years, he became the most famous French cartographer and globe maker spanning the 18th and 19th centuries. After having acquired the laboratory of the late Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723-1786; himself a renowned cartographer who continued the family business founded by his grandfather Nicolas Sanson in the seventeenth century) and after having purchased, between 1788 and around 1800, the businesses of Jean-Baptiste Fortin (1750-1831) and Jean Lattré (around 1750-1800), Delamarche began to call himself "Successeur de MM. Sanson and Robert de Vaugondi, Géographes du Roi and de M. Fortin, Ingénieur-mécanicien du Roi pour les globes et les sphères".
Thus, at the end of the eighteenth century, Delamarche possessed the warehouse stocks, as well as the manufacturing skills of the globes of his main rivals in Paris.
In addition to this aggressive acquisition policy, the key to his success also lay in the combination of high-quality cartography with extremely attractive globes and armillary spheres; and, of course, its famous red paint finishing touch.
His laboratory was located in Rue de Foin St Jacques "au Collège Me. (or "Mtre") Gervais" in the Latin Quarter of Paris until around 1805, when he moved to rue du Jardinet n. 13.
On the death of Charles-François in 1817, the reins of the company passed to his son Félix (1779-1835), who continued to publish, often in collaboration with the engraver Charles Dien, Senior. In 1835 the company first moved to rue du Jardinet n. 12 and a little later to rue du Battoir n. 7.
Bibliography:
Van der Krogt P., Old Globes in the Netherlands, Utrecht 1984, p. 101;
Van der Krogt P. e Dekker E., Globes from the Western World, London 1993, p. 84;
Dekker E., et al., Globes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, 1999, pp. 321 for the story of the Delamarche family.
- Creatore:Charles Francois Delamarche (Fabbricante)
- Dimensioni:Altezza: 43,5 cm (17,13 in)Diametro: 27,7 cm (10,91 in)
- Stile:Altro (Del periodo)
- Materiali e tecniche:
- Luogo di origine:
- Periodo:1790-1799
- Data di produzione:1791
- Condizioni:Usura compatibile con l’età e l’utilizzo. There are small, slight gaps, abrasions, stains and cracks due to use and aging.
- Località del venditore:Milano, IT
- Numero di riferimento:1stDibs: LU4352245213782
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