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The Stephen Edell Collection of Pocket and Table Globes
Lot 174
A Richard/Leonard Cushee 2 ¾-inch pocket globe in case, English, circa 1750,
15 September 2021, 14:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £15,250 inc. premium
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A Richard/Leonard Cushee 2 ¾-inch pocket globe in case, English, circa 1750,
signed in a cartouche, A New GLOBE of the Earth by L Cushee (the initial L in manuscript presumably over the printed R), the sphere applied with hand coloured and printed gores, pivot holes at both poles, North America is labelled Unknown Parts and California is shown as a peninsular, the fish-skin case with inner hemispheres applied with hand coloured goes of the celestial sphere,
2 3/4in (7cm) diameter
2 3/4in (7cm) diameter
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Stephen Edell Collection.
Leonard Compere Cushee is recorded at Opposite Temple Gate, Fleet Street, London in 1761 as a map engraver. It is likely that he was the brother or cousin of Richard Cushee (fl. 1730-1750), and his globes were sold from the workshop previously operated by Thomas Wright who collaborated with Richard Cushee on globe and orrery designs. Unusually for pocket globes made in the mid-18th century, the Cushee family used celestial gores which showed the constellations as seen from the Earth rather than from outside.