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BARDIN, William. Wright's New Improved Terrestrial Globe. London: Made and sold by William Bardin, Fleet Street, undated [circa 1790].
A pair of table globes, diameter 9 inches (23cm), overall height 14 inches (36cm). Each globe comprising 12 hand-coloured engraved gores, the celestial laid to the ecliptic poles, decorated with constellation figures, pasted overlabel cartouches. The terrestrial marking the tracks of Anson's and the three Cook voyages (some abrasions and wear to both globes, a few small cracks at poles, later varnish). Metal axis, hour circles printed on gores, brass meridian circles, graduated on one face, grooved on verso, hand-coloured engraved horizon circles (rubbed). The horizon carried by four turned supports with cross stretchers and later brass centreposts, contained in later wooden boxes.
William Bardin published a number of Gabriel Wright's globes in the 1780's and 90's, mostly 9 to 12 inch diameter. Gabriel Wright (1740-83) had worked for Benjamin Martin and Son, and began making globes with William Bardin around 1780. It appears that William kept the plates after Wright's death and later expanded the business with his son Thomas.
A pair of table globes, diameter 9 inches (23cm), overall height 14 inches (36cm). Each globe comprising 12 hand-coloured engraved gores, the celestial laid to the ecliptic poles, decorated with constellation figures, pasted overlabel cartouches. The terrestrial marking the tracks of Anson's and the three Cook voyages (some abrasions and wear to both globes, a few small cracks at poles, later varnish). Metal axis, hour circles printed on gores, brass meridian circles, graduated on one face, grooved on verso, hand-coloured engraved horizon circles (rubbed). The horizon carried by four turned supports with cross stretchers and later brass centreposts, contained in later wooden boxes.
William Bardin published a number of Gabriel Wright's globes in the 1780's and 90's, mostly 9 to 12 inch diameter. Gabriel Wright (1740-83) had worked for Benjamin Martin and Son, and began making globes with William Bardin around 1780. It appears that William kept the plates after Wright's death and later expanded the business with his son Thomas.