SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

d'ANVILLE, JEAN-BAPTISTE BOURGUIGNON.

1697-1782. Född och död i Paris.
Fransk geograf, Redan i sin tidigaste ungdom ägnade han sig åt geografiska och antika studier. 15 år gammal utarbetade han en karta över det gamla Hellas. 1727 gav han ut en karta över Afrika som följdes av 'Atlas de la Chine'. En 'Geographie Ancienne' kom i en rad utgåvor på olika språk fram till 1815, flera år efter hans död. Han utarbetade ett flertal kartor från alla jordens hörn, utgivna i samlingar utan speciella titelblad. Medlem av 'L'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres och L'Académie royale des sciences.'


Bland arbeten.
Atlas de la Chine.
Geographie Ancienne.

Nouv. biogr. gen. - Philips.

Hartmann, Wolfgang

Död ca 1663.
Wolfgang Hartmann, död omkring 1663, var en tysk kopparstickare.
Hartmann inflyttade omkring 1644 till Sverige, närmast från Riga och Rostock, och utförde här porträtt av bland andra drottning Kristina och Karl X Gustav, en stor utsikt av Stockholm samt illustrationer, bland annat för Keysers vapenbok.
Bland arbeten.
Porträtt, drottning Kristina.
Porträtt, Karl X Gustav.
Keysers vapenbok.
Panorama över Stockholm.

SPAFARIEFF, Leonty

Knight Leontiy Vassilievich Spafaryev (1765 - 30 January 1847) was a Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Navy. Spafaryev was Director of the Lighthouse Administration and cartographer of the Russian Admiralty.
Spafariev was an important contributor to the improvement of navigation along the Russian coasts. The first lighthouses in Russia were built during tsar Peter the Great's drive for reform and modernization at the beginning of the 18th century. However, it was only until the Administration of Lighthouses was created in 1807 that the Russian lighthouse system followed an organized pattern, becoming effective and efficient. This office was established by the Russian Navy and it began under the leadership of Leontiy V. Spafaryev.
As a cartographer, perhaps his most outstanding work is the 'Atlas of the Gulf of Finland', published in 1817. His name is spelt as 'Spafarief' or 'Spafarieff' in the United States.
The Spafaryev Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk and Spafarief Bay in the coast of Alaska...
Bland arbeten.
Atlas of the Gulf of Finland containing the South Coast, with the Islands from cape Luserort to Cronstadt with Light houses & Towers necessary to be known for sailing by night.

Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.

Kummin, Carum carvi - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

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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