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Wyld's Great Globe (also known as Wyld's Globe or Wyld's Monster Globe) was an attraction situated in London's Leicester Square between 1851 and 1862, constructed by James Wyld (1812–1887), a distinguished mapmaker and former Member of Parliament for Bodmin.
James Wyld (1812–1887) was a British geographer and map-seller, best known for Wyld's Great Globe. [1] He was the eldest son of James Wyld the Elder (1790–1836) and Eliza (née Legg). In 1838, he married Anne, the daughter of John Hester, and had two children, one of whom, James John Cooper Wyld also became a map publisher. [2]
Pages in category "19th-century maps and globes" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Wyld's Great Globe This page was last ...
English: The Building in Leicester-Square, for Mr Wyld's Model of the Earth. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 29 March 1851. Engraver: G. H. K. S. ? A view of the Great Globe which stood in Leicester Square between 1851 and 1862
Abraham Bradley's U.S. postal route map of 1804 Moule's map of the hundreds of Monmouthshire, c. 1831 A 1912 map of the Russian Empire by Yuly Shokalsky Robert Aitken of Beith. born c. 1786 Carlo de Candia (1803–1862), Italian cartographer, created the large maritime map of Sardinia in 1: 250,000 scale, travel version.
[33] [34] James Wyld bought the assets of the garden from the Tulk and Moxhay's death estates in 1849 to erect the Great Globe, [33] though buried the statue of George I under 12 feet of earth with the globe stuck on top. The statue was uncovered following the globe's demise, but by 1866 it had deteriorated due to vandalism and was sold for £ ...
Wyld's Great Globe, located in London's Leicester Square from 1851-1862, was a hollow globe 60 feet 4 inches (18.39 m) in diameter designed by mapmaker James Wyld. Visitors could climb stairs to view a plaster of Paris model of the Earth's surface, complete with mountains and rivers to scale.
Great Globe; Great Polish Map of Scotland; ... The World (archipelago) Wyld's Great Globe This page was last edited on 27 March 2020, at 15:18 (UTC). ...