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TABLE GLOBES -- AKRELL, CARL FREDRIK (1779-1862)
Utgifuenar 1817...Himmels Glob. Stockholm: [c.1820]. A pair of Swedish table globes, diameter 25cm (10 inches). The terrestrial with land coloured green, title overlabel( in the North Atlantic), the celestial partially in blue, elaborate constellation figures, the two globes on contemporary tripod stands, globes with brass meridian circles, graduated on one face, horizon rings with original papered calendars, horizons supported by four supports to a central turned base, on three downswept cabriole lets, brass decorations to quadrants. Overall height 53 cm.
An attractive pair of Swedish table globes, a miniature form of the large sized globes issued by the Akerman workshop. Frederick Akrel (1748-1804), an engraver and globemaker worked with Anders Akerman on his 11cm and 60cm globes. On Akerman's death in 1778 the workshop became the property of the state, and Akrel ran the operation issuing revised 12 inch globes in 1779 and 24 inch globes soon after. On his father's death in 1804, Carl Frederik took over making globes for the gentry of Sweden into the 1830s.
Utgifuenar 1817...Himmels Glob. Stockholm: [c.1820]. A pair of Swedish table globes, diameter 25cm (10 inches). The terrestrial with land coloured green, title overlabel( in the North Atlantic), the celestial partially in blue, elaborate constellation figures, the two globes on contemporary tripod stands, globes with brass meridian circles, graduated on one face, horizon rings with original papered calendars, horizons supported by four supports to a central turned base, on three downswept cabriole lets, brass decorations to quadrants. Overall height 53 cm.
An attractive pair of Swedish table globes, a miniature form of the large sized globes issued by the Akerman workshop. Frederick Akrel (1748-1804), an engraver and globemaker worked with Anders Akerman on his 11cm and 60cm globes. On Akerman's death in 1778 the workshop became the property of the state, and Akrel ran the operation issuing revised 12 inch globes in 1779 and 24 inch globes soon after. On his father's death in 1804, Carl Frederik took over making globes for the gentry of Sweden into the 1830s.
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