C[harles] L. Malby (engraver)
Thomas Malby & Son
12-Inch Terrestrial Floor Globe
Thomas Malby & Son, London: 1856
36 inches high
17 inches diameter overall
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Malby 12-Inch Floor Globe
19th Century
19th Century
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A handsome 12-inch terrestrial floor globe by the Malby family of cartographers, one of the leading British globe makers of the mid 19th Century. Raised on a traditional mahogany stand in the George III taste.
The terrestrial globe surmounted by brass hour disc at North Pole, in full graduated brass meridian, the horizon edged in red paint with hand-colored engraved paper ring showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth, compass directions, days and months of the year, names of the signs of the zodiac, and an equation of time; on mahogany tripod stand in the Regency taste, the horizon supported by four mahogany quadrants joined with pairs of ogee brackets, the central turned baluster standard above downswept legs joined by compass stretcher with glazed round wooden compass case enclosing a paper compass card and magnetized metal needle; ending in ball feet.
Geographic entities cream colored, some with outlining and shading in green and pink. Oceans green. American west with various place names, though not clearly distinguished as to region, territory, or state: MINNESOTA, KANZAS, TEXAS, OREGON, UTAH, CALIFORNIA, NEW MEXICO. West with various Native American tribes noted, including Chippewas, Pawnees, Sioux.
Malby & Son was one of the most prominent British globemakers of the mid 19th century. The cartography on the globes was based on the work of the map publisher "The Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge." The Malby firm is perhaps best known for producing in 1849 a 92 centimeter (about 3 foot) diameter terrestrial globe for public exhibition, which was a reissue of John Addison's 1825 terraqueous globe.
Trapezoidal Cartouche: MALBY'S / TERRESTRIAL GLOBE / Compiled from the latest / & MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, / Including all the recent / Geographical Discoveries, / Manufactured and Published under the superintendence of the / SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, / BY THOS. MALBY & SON / GLOBE & MAP SELLERS TO THE ADMIRALTY / Published at the Globe Manufactory / 37, Parker Street, Little Queen Street, Holborn, London / [outside cartouche] Jan. 1st 1856.
Meridian Engraved: G. MOORE. June 1856. Hunter St. Acad'y, PRIZE GLOBES. (47th Pair.)
References:
Dekker, Elly. Globes at Greenwich. London: Oxford University Press: 1999, p. 405. (12-inch table globe with similar cartouche.)
Dekker, Elly and van der Krogt, Peter. Globes from the Western World Zwemmer, London: 1993, p. 116.