Cary 12-Inch Terrestrial Globe
date: label: date made
content: 1838
notes: label: Description
content: The cartouche in the north Pacific reads “CARY’S / NEW / TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, / Drawn from the most recent / GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS / shewing the whole of the New Discoveries / with the / TRACKS of the PRINCIPAL NAVIGATORS / and every improvement in Geography / to the present Time. / LONDON: / London Published by G. & J. Cary, St James’s St Jan. 7th 1838”
label: Description
content: A water mark on the map gores reads “C WILMOT / 1837”
label: Description
content: The globe is held in a 4-legged wooden stand, with a wooden horizon circle and a brass meridian.
label: Description
content: John Cary was a globe maker in London who began in business in 1791. He introduced his new 12-inch terrestrial globe, and the celestial mate, in 1798. This example is dated 1838. The signature refers to John Cary’s sons, George and John Jr., who worked together from around 1820 to 1852.
label: Description
content: Ref: Herbert George Fordham, <i>John Cary: Engraver, Map, Chart and Print-Seller and Globe-Maker, 1754 to 1835</i> (Cambridge, 1925)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Geography
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Globes
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Elsie Howland Quinby
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.392869B
label: catalog number
content: 392869B
label: accession number
content: 214358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: globe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 in; 58.42 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 1/2 in x 17 in; 62.23 cm x 43.18 cm