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Biografier.

LONGMAN, THOMAS.

1699-1755.
Se Longman & Co.


WIRSING, GEORG MICHAEL.

Född 1822 8/3 i Schweinfurt (Bayem), död 1894 3/1 i Stockholm (Tyska förs.).
Gravör. Anlände till Stockholm 1858 4/11 med pass från Berlin. Anställdes s. å. som gravör å topografiska avdelningen vid Generalstabens litografiska anstalt. Blev 1879 26/9 svensk medborgare. Erhöll 1891 avsked med en årlig pension av 1,500 kronor från riksdagen.

Bland arbeten.
Karta, detalj, 1865.


Hultmark, 1944.


Hooghe, Romeyn de.

ca 1646-1708.
About 1675, shortly before the van Keulen publishing business was set up in Amsterdam, Robijn practised there as a map 'illuminator' and chart seller. After a short association with Johannes van Keulen he acquired publishing rights covering the Zee-Spiegel and Zee Atlas from the widow of Pieter Goos and used the plates to produce his own pilot book and sea atlas. Apart from a small number of plates prepared to his own order, most of Robijn's work cannot be said to be original: he issued Goos's charts and those of Roggeveen with a variety of texts by J. and C. Jacobsz (Lootsman), Arent Roggeveen and even John Seller with the result that analysis of the various issues cannot easily be simplified. Robijn's stock was eventually taken over by Johannes Loots. The brief details given below should be read in conjunction with our notes on Pieter Goos and Arent Roggeveen.
Bland arbeten.
Hoogheymraadschap van Rhynland. (Leiden?, 1685-1688).
This large –scale map, compiled by Janz Douw and Steven van Brouchhuysen and engraved by Cornelis Danckerts, originally issued in 1647, was intended to be assembled into a wall-map in four series of three leaves. Between 1685 and 1688 the plates were brought up to date and the cartouche re-embellished by Romeyn de Hooghe and the map re-issued.


Sotheby's



Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.



Rödfibla, Hieracium Aurantiacum L. - 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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