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Wyld's Globe, Leicester Square, London, 1851-1862 (1907).
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.
Unique Identifier
AR980500
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
5142px × 3402px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
ANIMAL
ANIMALS
Architectural Feature
Architecture
ATTRACTION
B&W
B/W
Beresford Chancellor
Black & White
Black and white
Britain
British
building
BUILDINGS
chancellor
City of Westminster
concept
country
E
E Beresford
E Beresford Chancellor
England
English
Engraving
Entertainment
Entrance
event
Exterior
Geography
Great Exhibition 1851
Horse
HORSES
JAMES
James Wyld
LEICESTER SQUARE
LOCATION
London
Monochrome
NINETEENTH CENTURY
OUTSIDE
People
Portico
Print Collector14
SQUARE
TGN
The Print Collector
Victorian
WESTMINSTER
Wyld
Wyld's Globe