W. & A.K. Johnston
18-Inch Empire Style Paw-Foot Floor Globe
London: c. 1890s
43 inches high
23 inches diameter overall
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W. & A.K. Johnston Floor Globe
19th Century
19th Century
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The 18-inch terrestrial globe having brass hour discs at North and South Poles, in calibrated brass meridian, the horizon with engraved paper calendar and zodiac raised on four curved supports turning on a pinion in a mahogany circular tapering central pillar supported by an in curved quadripartite plinth, above four carved paw feet.
The globe made up of two sets of twelve gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees in both directions, hours and minutes, the ecliptic graduated in days and showing symbols for the houses of the Zodiac, the Greenwich meridan and ecquinoctial colure graduated in degrees, showing Mean Isothermal Lines for January and July, the oceans with an analemma, submarine telegraph cables and ocean currents indicated, the continents finely detailed, with nation states colored in shades of yellow, orange and green, the Antarctic with projected coastline but little detail. Eastern Oklahoma shown as Indian Territory, Western Oklahoma shown as Oklahoma Territory, indicating a date prior to 1907. International Date Line indicating a date after 1884.
Johnston featured a floor globe with an Empire style stand in its catalogs though the usual examples have a square tapering central standard and scrolled feet. This is the only known example of an Empire style stand with round tapering central standard and paw feet.
W. & A.K. Johnston was among the most important figures in the production of globes in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century. For more about Johnston globes see our Guide to Globe Makers reference section.
Circular Cartouche Surmounted by Coat of Arms: 18 INCH/ TERRESTRIAL GLOBE,/ by/ W. & A. K. JOHNSTON,/ LIMITED/ Geographers, Engravers & Printers/ EDINBURGH/ and/ LONDON
Explanatory Key Under Cartouche:
Submarine Telegraph Cables thus Black, Mean Isothermal lines for January Blue, Mean Isothermal lines for July Red, International Date Line