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The latter can be set to a date to give the time without the need for a compass to point to the magnetic north pole. Tuttell was a celebrated London maker, one of the first to sell off-the-shelf instruments. He illustrated this design on his trade card. The dial is shown here with its original felt-lined shark skin case.","physicalDescription":"Two rectangular dial-plates are hinged, the main dial numbered round the edge 'III-XII-VIII'. In the centre is engraved an eight-pointed compass on a field of floriate decration; the folding plate similarly decorated with a hole for the suspension of a plummet (now missing) and a scale. 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Thomas Tuttell was a celebrated mathematical instrument maker. He had two shops in London at the King's Arms and Globe at Charing Cross and the Royal Exchange in Cornhill between 1695 and 1702. This particular  sundial is illustrated on one of Tuttell's trade cards. It is shown here with its original shagreen or shark skin case.\n\nTuttell was apprenticed at the Clockmakers' Company in 1688 to Henry Wynne and freed in 1695. Though his career was short, he made several high-quality instruments. On the 22nd January 1702 Tuttell drowned while surveying the River Thames in his role as hydrographer to the King.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Brass sundial and shagreen case, England, 1695-1702, Thomas Tuttell.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Metalware Gallery, 2004:\n\nDUAL SUNDIAL\r\nSheet brass, cast elements, engraved and filled with black lacquer\r\nLondon, England; 1695-1702\r\nMade by Thomas Tuttell (active 1695-1702) and signed 'THO.TUTTELL CHARING LONDON FECIT'\n\r\nThis sundial has both conventional and analemmatic dials. The latter can be set to a date to give the time without the need for a compass to point to the magnetic north pole. Tuttell was a celebrated London maker, one of the first to sell off-the-shelf instruments. He illustrated this design on his trade card. The dial is shown here with its original felt-lined shark skin case.\r\n\r\nMiller Gift\r\nMuseum no. M.168-1938\r\n","date":{"text":"01/01/2004","earliest":"2004-01-01","latest":"2004-01-01"}},{"text":"BADA 2004 Exhibition label:\r\n\nSUNDIAL\r\nBrass, England, late 17th century, Thomas Tuttell (active 1695-1702), London\r\n\nThe sundial is signed \"THO.TUTTELL CHARING + LONDON FECIT\".  He was a celebrated London maker who had two shops, one of which was in Charing Cross at the sign of the King's Arms.  This particular sundial is illustrated on one of Tuttell's trade cards. It is shown here with its original shagreen case.\n\r\nThe sundial has a horizontal dial for a given latitude and an analemmatic dial.  An analemmatic sundial has a vertical pin, or gnomon, for casting a shadow.  The gnomon is attached to a slider and set to the date in the year.  The time is read by noting where the shadow crosses hour points laid out on an ellipse.  \r\n\nM.168-1938","date":{"text":"March 2004","earliest":"2004-03-01","latest":"2004-03-31"}}],"partNumbers":["M.168-1938","M.168A-1938"],"accessionNumberNum":"168","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":1938,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Dial","Case"],"assets":["2016JC8846","2019LM9903","2019LP9304","2019LP1486","2019LU7936","2019LU7680","2019LV6838"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-02-27","recordCreationDate":"2004-04-13","availableToBook":false}}