
Object Name: Terrestrial globe
Date: 1542
Medium: Copper, wood
Dimensions: Overall (with stand): 43 in. (109.2 cm)
Part (globe diam.): 15 in. (38.1 cm)
Place made: Europe, Italy, Rome
Description: Copper 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.
Credit Line: Gift of John David Wolfe
Object Number: 1872.22
Inscribed: Inscribed 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"
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Bibliography:
Buckingham Smith, "An inquiry into the authenticity of documents concerning a discovery in North America claimed to have been made by Verrazzano: read before the New-York Historical Society (NY: Printed by J.F. Trow, 1864).
Krohn, Deborah, Peter Miller, and Marybeth De Filippis, eds., "Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick." New York: Bard Graduate Center, New-York Historical Society, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009, p. 134-136
Exhibitions:
"Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margarita van Varick," Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, September 18, 2009-January 24, 2010.