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Globe x-ray Long Caption: Terrestrial table globe. Geographical details on the sphere include the location of the 'Antipodes de Paris'. There are five labels in North America, one label in Africa and two in Australia. The south coast of Australia is drawn and Tasmania, which is labelled 'I. de Van Diemen', is depicted as an island. The tracks of four explorers are shown with dates, including, for example those for Columbus with the dates 1492, 1493 and of Bougainville with the dates 1768, 1769. A total of nine oceans are named. The dedication of this globe to the Duchesse d'Angouleme, the only surviving child of Louis XVI and his Austrian queen, Marie-Antoinette, celebrates the restoration of the Bourbon succession in France after the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection Object: GLB0114 Artist: Hyacinthe Langlois; Pierre Lapie Date: 1815 Medium: papier mache; wood; plaster; hand-coloured; varnish; brass; paper; gilded-leather; copper plate engraved; ink Size: 520 mm x 425 mm; sphere diamter: 270 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.