sundial;
horizontal dial
- Museum number
- 1958,1006.2461
- Description
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Garden sundial; bronze disc; polar gnomon for latitude 55 43' 30"; (a) minutes; (b) hours in Roman numerals; (c) list of seventeen towns or countries; (d) equation table entitled 'Aequation of Natural Days'; (e) windrose; signed and inscribed.
- Production date
- 1726
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 447 millimetres
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Height: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A similar example is at Greenwich Maritime Museum, reg. no. AST1149; see H. Higton, Sundials at Greenwich, Oxford 2002, no. 4, pp. 59-60.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
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Latest: 3 (Oct 2016)
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2 (Sep 2016)
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3 (Oct 1995)
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Acquisition notes
- The Ilbert Collection of clocks, prints and other related material was destined to be sold at Christie's auction house on 6th-7th November 1958. As a result of the generous donation of funds by Gilbert Edgar CBE the sale was cancelled and the material purchased privately from the beneficiaries of the Ilbert Estate.
Ilbert's watches were then acquired with further funds from Gilbert Edgar CBE, public donations and government funds. These were then registered in the series 1958,1201.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1958,1006.2461
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: CAI.2461 (Ilbert Collection)
