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Biografier.

YOUNG, JAMES H.


American engraver with Delleker.

James H. Young har också graverat en världskarta 'The World on a Globular Projection...' av D. H. Vance som kom ut i Philadelphia c:a 1830. Kartan är känd i bara två exemplar, ett finns hos Cornell University i staten New York och ett fanns hos VÖBAM i Stockholm, numera hos Library of Congress.


Bland arbeten.
Varle's United States, 1817.
Finley's North America, 1826.
Indiana 1834, Carolinas 1835, Virginia, 1837.
Mitchell's National Map of American Republic, 1846.
Kentucky, 1850.
The World on a Globular Projection...


Tooley. RdeT.

GUERARD, JEAN.


Beskriven som 'Navigator and Hydrograph in Dieppe' (1634). Utgav bl.a. en hydrografisk världskarta.


RdeT.

TINDAL, NICHOLAS.

1685-1774.
English translator, historian and publisher. Published various map books, among them the fifteen volumes of Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin 's History of England


Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.


Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.


Edvard Magnus' minne. - O. A. Mankell 1884.

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L'ENFANT, PIERRE CHARLES.

Biografiska uppgifter:1754-1825.
L'Enfant was born in Paris where he trained to be an architect. He came to America in 1777, and served George Washington as an engineer during the Revolutionary War. In 1791 President Washington asked L'Enfant to design the new capitol city in the District of Columbia. L'Enfant designed a city similar in layout to the then French capitol city of Versailles. The Capitol in Washington sits in a position similar to that of the palace in Versailles, the White House (originally called the President's House) in the position of Grand Trianon, and the Mall is like the Parc. The Commissioners of the City of Washington wanted to have a printed copy of the plan when they began to sell building lots. L'Enfant irritated them by working slowly and releasing only sketchy plans . On instruction from President Washington, Thomas Jefferson on February 27, 1792 wrote a letter to L'Enfant dismissing him as city planner. L'Enfant died penniless and was buried on a friend's estate. In 1909 his remains were moved to Arlington National Cemetery on a hill overlooking the capitol city.



(Washington Map Society. Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Pierre Charles L'Enfant'. )

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