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3482887 Large pair of library globes, the terrestrial 1645/48, the celestial after c.1630 (plaster, wood and engraved paper) by Blaeu, Willem (1571-1638); height: 99 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: A LARGE PAIR OF DUTCH 68 CM. (26 IN.). LIBRARY GLOBES
WILLEM JANSZOON BLAEU (1571-1638), AMSTERDAM. THE TERRESTRIAL 1645/1648, THE CELESTIAL AFTER CIRCA 1630
The terrestrial: made up of thirty-six hand-coloured engraved half gores and two polar calottes, pasted onto a plaster sphere, with a detailed and inscribed cartouche to each hemisphere as called for by P. van der Krogt (state 4), the equatorial graduated and labeled every 10 degrees, each degree divided into thirds and alternately hand-coloured in red, blank and blue, the meridian similarly labelled and coloured, the prime meridian of Tenerife is used, the ecliptic graduated in individual days and the houses of the Zodiac similarly coloured, the tropics and polars hand-coloured red, the seas densly decorated with ships, seamonsters, wind-roses and shipping routes, the continents with mountains, rivers and towns named in Latin and decorated with animals, figures and monsters, the great wall of China represented pictorially, California shown as an island, the fictious island labelled Frisland (unlike that in Van der Krogt), on a parcel-gilt and grained imitating rosewood Dutch-style stand with four turned baluster supports above a circular moulded base with cross-stretcher and bun feet, the globe supported in a later black painted iron meridian, the hand-coloured engraved horizon carrying Julian and Gregorian calendars with Saints days, houses of the Zodiac, the wind directions and degree scale; areas of globe and horizon filled in with manuscript replacements.
The celestial: made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved half gores, pasted on to a plaster sphere, with a detailed and inscribed cartouche headed by a portrait of Tycho Brahe and bearing the signature Guiljelmus Blaeuw as called for by P. van der Krogt (state 3), the axis through the celestial pole, the equatorial graduated and labelled every 10 degrees, each degree divided into thirds, the ecliptic graduated in individual days of the houses of the Zodiac, labelled every ten days, each day divided into thirds, the constellations following the style established by Mercator and finely engraved, with text in Latin, Greek and Arabic giving alternative names, the stars are categorized to six levels of magnitude and are picked out in gold paint, nebulae are given a separate symbol and are indicated in notes without a cartouche, on an identical stand with later black painted iron meridian and hand-coloured engraved horizon; areas of horizon filled in with manuscript replacements, areas of globe lost and filled in.
99 cm. high
Each globe with a later square stained and moulded wood plinth base - 26 cm. high x 73 cm. wide x 73 cm. deep (2)); Photo eChristies Images; Dutch, out of copyright. © Christie's Images / Bridgeman Images

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