HILL, Nathaniel (fl.1742-1768)

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10.07.2024 10:30UTC +00:00
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Los 115 | HILL, Nathaniel (fl.1742-1768)
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£ 5 000 – 8 000
HILL, Nathaniel (fl.1742-1768)
AN ENGLISH 2¾-INCH POCKET GLOBE,1754
An English pocket globe from the mid-18th century, with prize presentation label.

Nathaniel Hill began his career in apprenticeship to globe-maker and surveyor Richard Cushee (1696-1733) in 1730; Cushee himself was an apprentice of Charles Price (fl.1697-1733), the globemaker for Lots 113 and 114. Hill worked from the Globe and Sun at 128 Chancery Lane (Cushee's old address) and was a surveyor, mathematician, and scientific instrument maker. Hill's apprentice and successor was Thomas Bateman, who in turn was succeeded by John Newton (1759-1844) - Newton later partnered with his son William to produce pocket globes in the 1830s (see lot 117). John Newton's first address was that of Nathaniel Hill's in Chancery Lane, and Newton actually used Hill's plates from 1754, with minimum revisions, for the basis of his own first pocket globe (dated 1783). Nathaniel Hill's globes were some of the most popular in the mid-eighteenth century; his pocket globes came onto the market right when these small and collectible objects were in fashion (from the early-18th to the mid-19th century). Pocket globes were portable objects of interest that signaled an intellectual cultivation and a substantial level of wealth. Hill's pocket globes actually undercut the competition: Senex, Martin and Dudley Adams sold their pocket globes for 10 shillings each, whereas Hill's were 7 shillings and 6 pence. Hill's output was indeed prolific and varied: a trade card from the time advertises globes of 3, 9, 12, and 15 inches.

The globe comprised of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the cartouche signed A New Terrestrial GLOBE by Nath Hill 1754, the terrestrial globe with graduated equator, meridian through London, the oceans with trade winds and monsoons shown by arrows, the map showing Australia as New Holland, Dimens Land and New Zealand part delineated, North-West America as Unknown Parts, California shown as a peninsula, the Arctic lacking definition and labelled Ice Sea, no hypothetical southern continent; contained in a spherical fishskin-covered case, each interior hemisphere lined with two sets of twelve hand-coloured, engraved celestial gores and two polar calottes, the exterior with two silver plaques engraved 13 Bellchambers S. King & Gul.s Fox Suminum Geographicum Premium Pares Meruere, the edge of the case painted red and with two brass hooks and eye clasps.

3 in. (7.5 cm.) diameter in case
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