Lot Essay
The manufacture of this globe can be dated to between 1881, when the French army entered Tunisia, and 1885, when the Congo was officially declared a state.
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PICARD, Eugne, Paris
GLOBE TERRESTRE Dress par EUGNE PICARD revu par A. VUILLEMIN E. ANDRIVEAU-GOUJON, DITEUR Paris - 4, Rue de Bac [c.1883]
A 13-inch (33cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve chromolithographed and hand-coloured paper gores and two polar calottes, the equator and prime meridian graduated in degrees, the latter running through Paris, the oceans showing equatorial and polar ocean currents, trade winds, submarine cable lines, steamship routes and details such as Plantes Marines, the continents with nation states variously coloured in outline according to areas of national possession, Tunisa shown as French, the Congo unlabelled, with further details such as railway lines and overground telegraph lines, rivers, mountain ranges, towns and cities and the Great Wall of China (surface abrasions, dent to the Philippines and mid-Atlantic, further abrasions to both poles) with engraved brass meridian half-circle divided in two quadrants, raised on a turned ebonised column and plinth base -- 23in. (60.3cm.) high
See Colour Illustration and Detail
GLOBE TERRESTRE Dress par EUGNE PICARD revu par A. VUILLEMIN E. ANDRIVEAU-GOUJON, DITEUR Paris - 4, Rue de Bac [c.1883]
A 13-inch (33cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve chromolithographed and hand-coloured paper gores and two polar calottes, the equator and prime meridian graduated in degrees, the latter running through Paris, the oceans showing equatorial and polar ocean currents, trade winds, submarine cable lines, steamship routes and details such as Plantes Marines, the continents with nation states variously coloured in outline according to areas of national possession, Tunisa shown as French, the Congo unlabelled, with further details such as railway lines and overground telegraph lines, rivers, mountain ranges, towns and cities and the Great Wall of China (surface abrasions, dent to the Philippines and mid-Atlantic, further abrasions to both poles) with engraved brass meridian half-circle divided in two quadrants, raised on a turned ebonised column and plinth base -- 23in. (60.3cm.) high
See Colour Illustration and Detail