ABEL - KLINGER, Carl (fl. 1852), Nuremberg

细节
ABEL - KLINGER, Carl (fl. 1852), Nuremberg
DE AARDE volgens de nieuwste ontdekkingen Uitgave van C. Abel - Klinger te NEURENBERG
A 12½-inch (32cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe, made up of twelve hand coloured engraved gores with two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days and showing the symbols of the houses of the zodiac, the prime meridian graduated in degrees and running through Iceland and Ferro, the continents outlined in colour (extensive neat restoration), brass meridian ring divided into four quadrants, with adjustable brass quadrant of altitude graduated from 0° to 90° and hour ring (quadrant and hour ring modern replacements), the octagonal horizon ring raised on four quadrant supports, mounted on a turned wooden column and quatrefoil wooden plinth base incorporating a compass (horizon ring supplied in coloured facsimile) -- 25in. (63.5cm.) high overall

See Colour Illustration and Detail
出版
Peter van der Krogt Old Globes in the Netherlands (Utrecht, 1984)
Elly Dekker and Peter van der Krogt Globes from the Western World (London, 1993)

拍品专文

A similar globe is described by van der Krogt as KKh 7, the Antarctic bearing the names Enderbij's L., Sabrina L., Adelie L., Peter E. I., Keiz. Alexander I L. and Victoria Ld., which are found on the present example, and the number 9 stamped on the meridian circle below the hour ring, as has this example. Van der Krogt describes the ecliptic as "divided in pieces of 10 degrees": the ecliptic on this globe is graduated 10 20 30 10 20 30 ... , which also seems to match.
The company was originally started by Johann Georg Klinger (1764-1806). Dekker and van der Krogt state that "his widow continued to run his firm under the name 'J.G. Klinger's Kunsthandlung'. In 1831, the company was bought by Johann Paul Dreykorn (1805-75), who continued to run it under the same name. The merchant Carl Abel, who joined the company in 1852, was less modest; from about this time onwards, the publisher's name on the globes was given as 'C. Abel Klinger'" (p. 106).