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Lot Essay
A fine Georgian pocket globe. Richard Cushee was baptised in 1696 and educated at Christ's Hospital school in London. He was apprenticed to the hydrographer and globe maker Charles Price (circa 1697-1733), made a freeman of the Merchant Taylors guild in 1721, and worked from The Globe & Sun in Fleet Street, sharing premises with John Coggs and William Wyeth. In 1731 he took on as an apprentice Nathaniel Hill (fl.1746-68), who in 1754 would issue his own updated pocket globe. Richard's cousin Leonard would in turn issue his own pocket globe in c.1760.
Cushee also sought to promote his products through publication: in 1731, collaborating with the instrument maker Thomas Wright, he published The Description and Use of the Globes, and the Orrery, a popular book by Joseph Harris, teacher of mathematics, which by 1783 had gone through twelve editions. Wright would use Cushee's pocket globes in his orreries and armillary spheres.
Cushee also sought to promote his products through publication: in 1731, collaborating with the instrument maker Thomas Wright, he published The Description and Use of the Globes, and the Orrery, a popular book by Joseph Harris, teacher of mathematics, which by 1783 had gone through twelve editions. Wright would use Cushee's pocket globes in his orreries and armillary spheres.