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Celestial Globe in a Wooden Chair
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Celestial Globe in a Wooden Chair

Gerard Valck · 1700 · turning; striking (metalworking); plakken; colour; carpentry; casting; forging; printing; copper (metal); paper; wood (plant material); linden; gypsum; oak (wood)

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 description
Subjects
hemelglobe
Credit lineHemelglobe in houten stoel. 1700. Gerard Valck. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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