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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Nicholas Goodison, English Barometers 1680-1860, Woodbridge, 1977, p.130
Edwin Banfield, Barometers, Stick or Cistern Tube, Trowbridge, 1985, p.93, fig.113
The partnership of the eminent instrument maker Alexander Adie and his son John worked from two address in Princes Street, Edinburgh (58: 1835-1842 and 50: 1843-1860). Father and son were the only two instrument makers elected as Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. John shot himself in 1857 and Alexander died in 1858. A mahogany stick barometer of related design was sold Christie's London, Important Clocks and Marine Chronometers, 5 July 2006, lot 115 and a rosewood example by Adie and Son was sold The Legend of Dick Turpin, Part I, 9 March 2006, lot 280, the latter having a thermometer to the trunk as on the present example. A rosewood barometer by Adie & Son was sold Sotheby's London, Fine Furniture and Clocks, Including Property from Two Noble English Collections, 10 September 2007, lot 2.
Nicholas Goodison, English Barometers 1680-1860, Woodbridge, 1977, p.130
Edwin Banfield, Barometers, Stick or Cistern Tube, Trowbridge, 1985, p.93, fig.113
The partnership of the eminent instrument maker Alexander Adie and his son John worked from two address in Princes Street, Edinburgh (58: 1835-1842 and 50: 1843-1860). Father and son were the only two instrument makers elected as Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. John shot himself in 1857 and Alexander died in 1858. A mahogany stick barometer of related design was sold Christie's London, Important Clocks and Marine Chronometers, 5 July 2006, lot 115 and a rosewood example by Adie and Son was sold The Legend of Dick Turpin, Part I, 9 March 2006, lot 280, the latter having a thermometer to the trunk as on the present example. A rosewood barometer by Adie & Son was sold Sotheby's London, Fine Furniture and Clocks, Including Property from Two Noble English Collections, 10 September 2007, lot 2.