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Sphere and stand Long Caption: Terrestrial table globe. It forms a pair with the celestial globe, Valk GLB0103. Geographical details on the sphere include loxodromes drawn for 32 compass points. At the east coast of Greenland there are three notes in Dutch, and there is a comment in the north polar region. In central Asia, the Caspian Sea and Lake Aral are depicted and labelled. The extension of the northwest coast of America is labelled 'TERRA INCOGNITA sive MARE de ARAL'. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection Object: GLB0102 Artist: Gerard Valk; Leonard Valk Date: 1750 Medium: papier mache; plaster; paper; varnish; brass; wood; hand-coloured; copper plate engraved; ink Size: 700 mm x 636 mm; sphere diameter: 460 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.