The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terrestrial Globe

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 774

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: inscribed on side of the globe: A NEW AMERICAN THIRTEEN INCH / [Columbia with a globe of the western hemisphere and an eagle holding in its beak a ribbon inscribed E Pluribus Unum] / TERRESTIAL GLOBE / Exhibiting with the greatest possible Accuracy / THE POSITIONS of THE PRINCIPAL KNOWN / PLACES on the EARTH / with the Tracks of various Circumnavigators together with / New Discoveries and Political Alterations down to / The present PERIOD 1828 / BY WILSON & SONS ALBANY ST. N.Y.
Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Schwartz, Paterson, New Jersey, until 1969
See also
Who
James Wilson (5)
What
Metal (59,619)

Paper (24,043)

Copper alloy (16,659)

Wood (9,286)

Furniture (5,728)

Brass (3,509)

Mahogany (976)

Plaster (842)

Globes (65)

Terrestrial globes (2)
Where
North and Central America (83,077)

United States (79,776)

New York (2,784)

Albany (67)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,790)
In the Museum
American Decorative Arts (11,825)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The United States and Canada, 1800–1900 A.D.