- Subject
- Sundials
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Humphrey Cole
- Provenance
- Presented by Lewis Evans. Made for Sir Henry Darcy.
- Primary inscriptions
- "+ H + Côle + + 1579 +" and "+ Sur + Henry + Darcy +"
- Physical material
- Brass
- Object type
- Horizontal dial
- Dimensions
- Height: 9cm Width: 18.1cm Depth: 18.3cm Weight: 0.5kg
- Inventory No
- 51646
- Accession Number
- 1924-0/part
Description
A horizontal dial intended to be set up in a garden, this instrument carries a compass rose of directions as well as its hour ring for indicating the time.
In addition to his own name, the maker has added that of the dial's Elizabethan owner, Sir Henry Darcy.
