fl. 1614-43
Abraham Goos was a noted engraver in Amsterdam who prepared plates for many maps published in well-known atlases of his time including Speed's A Prospect ofthe Most Famous Parts of the World (1627) and the 1632 edition of Speed's Atlas. He was related to the Hondius family by whom he was also employed as an engraver. In 1616 he issued a book of maps, the Nieuw Nederlandtsh Caertboeck (4to) which was re-issued in 1619 and 1625.
His son, Pieter, continued and extended his father's business and became one of the group of well-known engravers of sea charts active in Amsterdam in the middle years of the seventeenth century. In common with Colom, Doncker and Jacobsz he published a pilot guide, the Zee-Spiegel, basing it on plates obtained from Jacobsz. This went through many editions in different languages under the startling titles so popular at the time. In addition to publishing his Zee-Spiegel in the usual Parts 1 and II (Europe and Atlantic coasts) and Part III (Mediterranean) he broke new ground in pre...
LAZIUS, [LAZIO, LATZEN], WOLFGANG.
(1514-65). Hungarian cartographer, Prof. Medicine Vienna, and Secretary to Thomas Bakocz, Archbishop of Esztergom. Oldest known map of Hungary known as Lazar's map (78.3x54.8 cm.) published by Tanstetter in 1528 includes Slovakia. His maps of Austria, Hungary and Bavaria weer used by Mercator, Ortelius &c.,
Bland arbeten.
Austria 1545, 1556 (4 sh.),
Hungary 1556 (10 sh.),
Bavaria 1545,
Greece 1558 (4 sh.),
Peloponese 1558,
Tyrol 1561,
Atlas of Austrian Provinces 1561.
Tooley
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.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Lusatia Superior. - Amsterdam ca 1725.
