Terrestrial Globe
date: label: date made
content: ca 1800
name: label: owner
content: Priestley, Joseph
notes: label: Description
content: This 18-inch diameter terrestrial globe is supported on a wooden tri-leg pedestal, surrounded by a wooden horizon circle, and it equipped with a brass meridian and a small brass circle around the north pole. It (and its celestial mate) belonged to the Anglo-American chemist, Joseph Priestley.
label: Description
content: The cartouche in the Pacific Ocean displays a seated female figure of Britannia, a seated woman holding an astronomical quadrant, and a small portrait of Joseph Banks. The text below reads: “To the Rt Honorable / SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART K. B. / This New British Terrestrial Globe / containing all the latest Discoveries and Communications, from the most / correct and authentic Observations and surveys, to the year 1798 / by Captn Cook and more recent Navigators, Engraved on / an accurate Drawing by Mr Arrowsmith Geographer / Is respectfully dedicated / by his most obedient hble servants / W. & T. M. Bardin / 230” A text below reads: “Manufactured & Sold Wholesale & Retail by W. & T. M. BARDIN / 16 Salisbury Square Fleet Street London”
label: Description
content: William Bardin (fl. 1730-1798) was a London artisan who began making globes around 1780. Ten years later, now partnership with his son, Thomas Marriott Bardin (1768-1819), he began trading as W. & T. M. Bardin. The 18-inch globes, their most ambitious, were introduced in 1798, and remained in production, by successor firms, for a half century.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Millburn and Tör Rossaak, “The Bardin Family, Globe Makers in London” <i>Der Globusfreund</i> (1992).
label: Description
content: Elly Dekker, <i>Globes at Greenwich</i> (Oxford, 1999), pp. 260-270.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
label: associated place
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Williamsport
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: Mrs. Eliza R. Lyon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.53253
label: catalog number
content: 53253
label: accession number
content: 27050
objectType: label: Object Name
content: terrestrial globe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 45.5 cm; 17 29/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 53 in x 39 in x 89 in; 134.62 cm x 99.06 cm x 226.06 cm