Artist/Maker Eufrosino della Volpaia (ca. 1494 - after 1554)

Terrestrial globe

1542

Place madeRome, Italy, Europe

Copper, wood

Overall (with stand): 43 in. (109.2 cm)
Part (globe diam.): 15 in. (38.1 cm)

Gift of John David Wolfe

1872.22

Ulpius's terrestrial globe, made in Rome in 1542, indicates the exploration of the New York region by Giovanni de Verrazano. The globe was found by the diplomat and historian Buckingham Smith (1810-1871) in Madrid in 1859 and may be the one described by Hakluyt as "an olde excellent globe in the Queen's privie gallery at Westminster which seemeth to be of Verarsanus Makinge."

DescriptionCopper globe on stand. Copies much of Verrazano's map of 1529 and credits him with the discovery of territory around New York City in 1524.

MarkingsEngraved on lower portion of globe: "Regions of the Terrestrial globe handed down by ancients, or discovered in our memory or that of our fathers. Delineated by Euphrosynus Ulpius, 1542"; dedication engraved in the present-day Indian Ocean: "Marcellus Cervino / S. R. E. Presbitero / Cardinali D. D. Romae."

ClassificationsSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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