[LANE (fl. 1809-33), London]
[LANE (fl. 1809-33), London]

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[LANE (fl. 1809-33), London]
HARRIS 77, CORNHILL LONDON [but LANE'S Improved GLOBE. LONDON] A 3-inch (7.6cm.) diameter terrestrial pocket globe, made up of twelve hand coloured engraved gores, the prime meridian marked Meredian of Greenwich, ungraduated, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours in roman numerals, clockwise and counterclockwise, the ecliptic graduated in days and showing the zodiac symbols, the countries outlined in colour, the Antarctic with partial coastline showing Enderbys Land 1833, Tasmania marked Dimens Land, the oceans showing the voyages of Cook, Ross, Anson, King and "Endeavour" (cracked, section of plaster lacking from Pacific between about 135° and 165° East, and 12° North and 8° South), in fishskin-covered case lined with the hand coloured engraved gores of a celestial globe (cracked, slight loss of image at rims), two brass hooks (of three) and three brass eyes

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Literature
CLIFTON, Gloria Directory Of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 (London, 1995)
KROGT, Peter van der Old Globes In The Netherlands (Utrecht, 1984)

Lot Essay

Although this globe bears a "Harris" label, it is the Lane globe described and illustrated by van der Krogt as Lae 5 (which shows the prime meridian of Greenwich and "Enderbys Land 1833", and uses the same typography and location for the place names), in a case lined with the gores of the celestial globe Lae 6 (pp. 181-2). The globe is dated by van der Krogt as "later than 1833". Clifton records two instrument makers named Harris working in Cornhill at this time: Clement Harris (fl. 1824-44) a chronometer maker who gave his address as Cornhill between 1825 and 1833, and 76 Cornhill in 1839 (p. 124), and William Harris II (fl. 1818-43) an optician and globe maker who worked from 22 Cornhill between 1831 and 1835 and was "associated with many other [instrument makers], from whom he obtained stock" (p. 126). Both of these are plausible candidates as the retailer of this globe: Clement Harris could have bought in globes to retail to his chronometer buyers, or William Harris II's address could have been misprinted as "77", instead of 22.

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