Globe--Vincenzo Coronelli
Title
Globe--Vincenzo Coronelli
Subject
AN 18-INCH TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, [CARTOUCHE DATED 1696]
Description
The globe is composed of two sets of twelve late seventeenth-century copper-engraved half gores and two polar calottes, coloured by hand and laid down on a modern sphere mounted in a metal meridian with hour ring and pointer, octagonal horizon ring raised on a central turned column surrounded by four supporting figures joined by two stretchers with bun feet, (38 inches tall)
Creator
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli
Source
Sotheby's Auction House
Date
1696
Contributor
Kip Hallagan (and group)
Identifier
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/travel-atlases-maps-a-natural-history-l18405/lot.49.html
Files
Reference
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, Globe--Vincenzo Coronelli, 1696
Cite As
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, “Globe--Vincenzo Coronelli,” Mapping History, accessed April 19, 2024, http://maps.omeka.bucknell.edu/items/show/912.