
Jon Baddeley
Specialist Consultant Collectors, Science & Marine
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Provenance:
Christie's, London, 1967.
The Stephen Edell Collection.
Richard Cushee was a globe maker and surveyor who worked at the sign of the Globe and Sun, between St Dunstan's Church and Chancery Lane in Fleet Street, London. In 1731, together with Thomas Wright, he published a book by Joseph Harris: The description and use of the globes, and the orrery. The pocket globes made by Cushee were used by Wright in the construction of his orreries.
Literature:
Elly Decker, Globes at Greenwich, London, 1999.
Sylvia Sumira, The Art and History of Globes, London, 2014.