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Biografier.

OTTENS, R. & I.

JOACHIM OTTENS 1663-1719
REINER OTTENS (son) 1698-1750
JOSHUA OTTENS (son) 1704-65
Holländskt kartförlag, etablerat i Amsterdam 1726 av bröderna Reiner och Iosua Ottens vid deras övertag av ett äldre konst- och kartföretag. Firman utgav en större atlas och en 'Atlas Minor' i en rad odaterade utgåvor. De ombesörjde även nyutgåvor av Louis Renards (se denne) navigationsatlas. Detta kan tyda på att det var hans företag som de övertog.

The family business of print and map selling was founded by Joachim Ottens but the active period of map publishing was concentrated in the years between 1720 and 1750 when the brothers, Reiner and Joshua, produced enormous collections of maps, some as large as 15 volumes. These, including copies of practically all maps available at the time, were made up to order and were magnificently coloured. Besides these specially prepared collections they also issued single-volume atlases with varying contents as well as pocket atlases.
Bland arbeten.
Atlas Minor.


Kleerkooper. - Phillips.

EKEBERG, CARL GUSTAF.

Född 1716 10/6 på Djursholms sätesgård i Danderyds sn (Sthlm), död 1784 4/4 på Ältomta i Tensta sn (Upps.).
Kapten vid Amiralitetet och Ostindiska kompaniet. Kopparstickare. Son av befallningsmannen Gustaf E. och Ebba Catharina Fast. Ledamot av Vetenskapsakademien 1761.





Bland arbeten.
C. G. EKEBERG, Ostindisk resa, åren 1770 och 1771, Sthlm 1773: Charta öfver Gap Godt Hopp, kpst., och Utsigt af Bay Fals, kpst.


Hultmark, 1944.

DELAHAYE, GUILLAUME.


Se de la Haye, Guillame.


Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.


Enanderhjelm - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.

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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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