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Biografier.

MARIETTE, PIERRE.


Bokhandlare och kartutgivare. Omnämnd 1658 och 1664. Gav bl.a. ut atlaser med kartor av Nicolas Sanson d.ä. (se denne).

HIMBERG, CLAES FREDRIK.

Född 1787 27/10 i Stockholm (Ad. Fredr.), död 1853 17/5 i samma stad (Hedv. El).
Gravör. Son av trädgårdsmästaren Nils H. och Catharina Lind. Elev vid Konstakademien, där han erhöll en tredjemedalj 1805. Blev 1846 4/9 omyndigförklarad och ställd under bokhållaren Gustaf Himbergs fömynderskap.
Bland arbeten.
N. G. WERMING, Kartor öfver svenska städer, u. o. [1806-19]: 3 blad, bl.a. Belägenheten af Falkenberg, 1813, och Belägenheten af Ängelholm, 1815. (Hultmark, 1944.)

Vrients, Jan Baptist.

1552-1612.
Vrients was the map engraver and publisher in Antwerp who, after the death of Ortelius in 1598, acquired the publication rights of the Theatrum. Between 1601 and 1612 he issued a number of editions which included some of his own maps and he was responsible for printing the maps for the English edition in 1606. He also published a number of important individual maps and a small atlas of the Netherlands.


Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.


Östra Zuid-Holland, västra Geldern. - Blaeu 1643/44.

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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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