John and William Newton. Newton's New and Improved Terrestrial Globe; Newton's New and Improved Celestial Globe. 1828.

NEWTON, John and William
(fl. 1818 — 1830)

Newton's New and Improved Terrestrial Globe; Newton's New and Improved Celestial Globe

Each globe made up of 2 pairs of 12 hand-colored engraved gores, both globes with their original varnish removed, and with occasionally old light spotting. Some stress fractures of the gore surface, some with expert minor restoration. Brass hour rings, diameter 3.25 inches, at each pole, brass meridian circles, graduated on one side, with a securing brass screw at the base of each stand.

Mounted on Newton style English mahogany stands, with papered horizon bars, each supported by four quadrants, leading down to a carved and turned pillar, with tripod legs and inswept feet, brass castors.

London, 66 Chancery Lane, Celestial and Terrestrial dated 1828
Diameter: 18 in; Height: 44 in.

A very fine pair Newton's 18-inch library globes on attractive mahogany stands.

John Newton had started his globe business in London in 1783, having first learnt his trade as an apprentice to Thomas Bateman, the successor of Nathaniel Hill. His first globe in 1783 was a pocket globe using Hill's copper plates. By 1801 he had started making larger globes and the business was in full swing by 1818 when his son William joined him on the company name.

These globes, issued in 1828, have the address 66 Chancery Lane, a location the business occupied from 1817-1861. John brought in William Berry as a new partner from the map world, around 1830, and he died in 1844. Newton rode the wave of the expansion of English globe making from the late 18th century, as the demand for globes hit their peak.