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Biografier.

HANS RUDOLF MANUEL DEUTSCH.

1525-1571.
Hans Rudolf Manuel (Deutsch) was a painter, designer and poet. Probably apprenticed with Maximilian Wischack in Basel in the early 1540s, he often designed for publishers in that city, although he lived in Bern. Less than a dozen known independent pen drawings and stained-glass designs bear dates (1540-50) and the monogram RMD. He designed greatly acclaimed topographical views of cities for Cosmographia. From 1562 he was governor of Morges in the canton of Waadt.




Bland arbeten.
Stadsvyer till Sebastian Münsters Kosmographica.


Vortecpan Maps & Prints.

GIBSON, JOHN.


Engelsk kopparstickare vid mitten av 1700-talet. Han graverade kartor för ett flertal atlaser, och utarbetade själv en 'Atlas minimus' som kom ut i 5 upplagor under åren 1758-98. Då redan den första av dessa upplagor är 'revis'd, corrected and improv'd by Eman: Bowen' (se denne), kan Gibson ha dött innan den utkom. I övrigt kan nämnas en odaterad atlas 'New and accurate Maps of the Counties of England and Wales'.

Bland arbeten.
Atlas minimus.
New and accurate Maps of the Counties of England and Wales.


Phillips.

SANSON, NICOLAS d.y.

1626-48.
Fransk geograf, son till Nicolas Sanson (se denne). Under Fronden (kamp mellan olika politiska fraktioner i Frankrike under åren 1648-53) deltog han i gatukampen i Paris, blev allvarligt sårad och dog strax därefter. Trots sin korta levnad hann han få verket 'Traité de l'Europe en discours' utgivet vilken innehöll en rad kartor (1648). Hans far fullföljde verket med motsvarande band över Asien, Afrika och Amerika. Samtliga kom i flera utgåvor.

Bland arbeten.
Traité de l'Europe en discours.


Nouv. biogr. gen. - Tooley.


Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.


Sumpsenap, Radicula palustris - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

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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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