AFTER MERCATOR, Gerardus (1512-1594) and Caspar VOPEL (1511-1561)

Lot 179
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Lot 179 | AFTER MERCATOR, Gerardus (1512-1594) and Caspar VOPEL (1511-1561)
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£ 300 000 – 500 000
AFTER MERCATOR, Gerardus (1512-1594) and Caspar VOPEL (1511-1561)

THE OLDEST SURVIVING ITALIAN GLOBES

A pair of terrestrial and celestial globes, probably made by Giacomo Gastaldi (c.1500-1566) in northern Italy, circa 1560. 11 1⁄2-inch (29 cm) globes supported in later meridian rings sitting in 19th century walnut and oak stands with restorations and manuscript paper horizon rings applied, previous ownership labels to undersides; each globe comprised of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, with engraved cartouches, the terrestrial (overpainted with the arms of Visconti, revealed under infra-red reflectography): A SERENISSIMVM EMANVELEM PHI LIBERTVM Sabau diensium & Subal pinoru Duc? and the celestial blank.





Provenance

By tradition, Paolo Giovio, thence by descent within the family (according to a label on the base)

Emanuele de Rosales (b.1873; the IX Marchese di Castelleone), his inventory number #497, circa 1930.

Acquired by an American collector through the Milanese dealer Eugenio Imbert, circa 1950.

Manhattan Galleries, New York City, lot 170A, 10 February 1982.

Whence acquired by the present owner.



Literature

Cigalini, Ramiro de Ordono de Rosales. Le Famiglie Ordono de Rosales, Cigalini, Della Torre de Rezzonico. Milan: 1928.

Dekker, Elly. ‘Caspar Vopel’s ventures in sixteenth-century celestial cartography’ In Imago Mundi, 62⁄21. Lympne: International Society for the History of Cartography 2010.

Karrow, Robert. W. Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and their Maps. Chicago: 1993.

Shirley, Rodney W. The Mapping of the World. London: 1983.

Stevenson, Edward Luther. Terrestrial and Celestial Globes. Reprint. New York: 1971.

Sykes, James. ‘A pair of unrecorded globes from the second half of the 16th century’ in Globe Studies. 61⁄62, pp.139-164, Vienna: International Coronelli Society, 2016. See also https://www.giovioglobes.com/

Van der Krogt, Peter. Globi Neerlandici. The production of globes in the Low Countries. Utrecht: 1993.

Woodward, David. ‘The Italian Map Trade, 1480–1650’ in The History of Cartography, 3⁄1. Pp. 779-791. Chicago: 2007.



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