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Sphere and stand Long Caption: Terrestrial table globe. It forms a pair with a celestial globe by Hill, GLB0092. Geographical details on the sphere include loxodromes for 32 compass points. Trade winds and monsoons are indicated by arrows, and California is drawn as a peninsula. In North America there is a label 'lands disc. 1741', and a large blank area labelled 'parts unknown'. Australia and New Zealand are drawn according to the Dutch discoveries, but a hypothetical south eastern coastline has been added to Australia. There is a picture of the Great Wall of China. A total of four oceans are named. The track of Anson is labelled 'Ansons Tract, Going Out, Adm.I Ansons Tract, Ansons Return'. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Adams collection Object: GLB0091 Artist: Nathaniel Hill Date: circa 1755 Medium: papier mache; plaster; copper plate engraved; varnish; metal; brass; paint; hand-coloured; paper Size: 235 mm x 220 mm; sphere diameter: 145 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.