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Celestial Globe in a Wooden Chair
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Celestial globe in a wooden chair. The chair has four legs, under a round profiled top with in the center a short wooden axle with a slot, into which a copper quadrant that fits around the globe falls. At the top of the legs a horizontal wooden circle from which the globe protrudes halfway and on which a calendar, now almost illegible, is pasted. The figures of the constellations on the globe are fully drawn and colored. On the lower half a panegyric addressed to Lotharius Zum-Bach. Inscription. Dated. Signed.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineHemelglobe in houten stoel. 1700. Gerard Valck. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.