The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched Developed by the Edward Harley

Developed by the Edward Harley

'Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy'

The philosopher Erasmus in square cap and fur trimmed robes

View of Morgan's Farm

The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London Finish:Stretched Developed by the Edward HarleyThe Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London, c1855. View with a street scene. 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.