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Lydia Satterthwaite
Embroidered Terrestrial Globe1817

On view:

Geffen Galleries, Transatlantic Exchange and Its Legacies

Handmade paper globe showing the Americas, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans, with printed grid lines, place names, and a marigold-yellow equatorial ribbon, surface aged and creased

Maker: Lydia Satterthwaite
Title: Embroidered Terrestrial Globe
Place Made: United States, Pennsylvania, Chester County
Date Made: 1817
Medium: Silk plain weave, painted, with silk embroidery
Dimensions: Overall (Diameter): 5 in. (12.7 cm) Circumference: 16 5/16 in. (41.5 cm) Weight: 0.56 lb. (0.3 kg)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Logan Henshaw
Accession Number: 42.28.5
Classification: Textiles
Collecting Area: Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography: Blondet, José Luis. Six Scripts for Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020.