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SURHON[IUS] [SURHONIO, SURCHON-], JEAN and JACQUES.


Cartographers, goldsmiths and engravers, b. Mons.

Bland arbeten.
Hainault 1548 (used by Ortelius 1579.
Hondius 1633).
Luxembourg 1551.
Namur 1553.
Artois 1554.
Picardy 1557 (used by Ortelius 1559).
Vermandois 1577 (used by Blaeu 1631).


Tooley.

Goos, Abraham.

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...

LUND, JOHAN GUSTAF af.


Född 1782 25/12 i Stockholm, utbildad på Karlbergs krigsskola, fänrik vid Arméns Flotta 1798, avsked 1811 med löjtnants grad.

Johan Gustaf af Lund tillhörde en gammal soldatsläkt, Södermanlands regemente, där hans farfars far tjänstgjorde, hans farfar slogs vid Poltava och Bender, hans far såg strid i Pommerska kriget och adlades för medverkan i Gustav III:s kupp 1772. Han själv kom att tjänstgöra i Arméns flotta.

Johan Gustaf af Lund utförde ett antal aldrig utgivna kartor, bland annat den ovan nämnda kartan och kartor utförda under Finska kriget 1808-09.
Bland arbeten.
Manuskriptkarta över Bohuslän 1804.


Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.


Vårlök, Gagea lutea - 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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