Wylds Globe, Leicester Square, London
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Wylds Globe, Leicester Square, London
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Print Collector
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Drawing - Illustration
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Wyld's Globe, Leicester Square, London, 1851-1862 (1907). Wyld's Globe was built in 1851 at the time of the Great Exhibition by James Wyld, a distinguished geographer and MP. Housed inside a purpose-built building was a hollow globe 60 feet in diameter with staircases and platforms from which people could view a representation, to scale, of the Earth's surface. The globe remained in Leicester Square until 1862. A print from The History of the Squares of London Topographical and Historical by E Beresford Chancellor, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co Ltd, London, 1907. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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January 28th, 2021
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