SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

SPAFARIEFF, Leonty

Knight Leontiy Vassilievich Spafaryev (1765 - 30 January 1847) was a Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Navy. Spafaryev was Director of the Lighthouse Administration and cartographer of the Russian Admiralty.
Spafariev was an important contributor to the improvement of navigation along the Russian coasts. The first lighthouses in Russia were built during tsar Peter the Great's drive for reform and modernization at the beginning of the 18th century. However, it was only until the Administration of Lighthouses was created in 1807 that the Russian lighthouse system followed an organized pattern, becoming effective and efficient. This office was established by the Russian Navy and it began under the leadership of Leontiy V. Spafaryev.
As a cartographer, perhaps his most outstanding work is the 'Atlas of the Gulf of Finland', published in 1817. His name is spelt as 'Spafarief' or 'Spafarieff' in the United States.
The Spafaryev Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk and Spafarief Bay in the coast of Alaska...
Bland arbeten.
Atlas of the Gulf of Finland containing the South Coast, with the Islands from cape Luserort to Cronstadt with Light houses & Towers necessary to be known for sailing by night.

HONDIUS, JODUCUS d.y.

Son till Jodocus Hondius d.ä.

LUNDGREN, CARL GUSTAF.

Född 1779 26/12 i Eetikka, Kuopio sn (Kuopio), död 1854 i Stockholm, kastade sig i Norrström och omkom.
Kopparstickare och kartgravör. Son av landsgevaldigern Israel L. och Catharina Ulrika Blankensten. Utbildade sig på egen hand som gravör. Var från början av 1800-talet verksam i Sverige och inskrevs 1811 i finska förs. i Stockholm. Arbetade i stor utsträckning för Lantmäterikontoret och uppbar härför under en längre tid ett årligt arvode av 300 rdr. »Anhålles att de, som åstunda kopparsticks-arbeten större eller mindre utförda af gravören Carl Gustaf Lundgren måtte helst sjelfwa … sig hos honom infinna . . . huset no 28 wid Regeringsgatan, lilla trappan från gårdssidan 3 tr. upp.» (Dagl. Alleh. 1835 28/11.) Kämpade under senare år med stora ekonomiska svårigheter, då litografien vid mitten av 1800-talet alltmera började uttränga kopparstickskonsten.
Bland arbeten.
N. G. WERMING, Kartor öfver svenska städer, u. o. [1806-19]: 7 blad, bl. a. Karta öfver kanalen vid Södertelge 1806, Plan öfver slaget vid Enzersdorf 1809 och Läget af Carlskrona 1813.
Karta_över Kalmar län och Öland, 1818.
Karta över södra delen av Sverige och Norge, 1819-26, efter G. Af Forsell.
L. HAMMARSKÖLD, Beskrifning öfver kongl. lustslottet Rosersberg, Sthlm 1821: karta över Rosersbergs omgivningar, efter S. P. Nordstedt.
J. BERGGREN, Resor i Europa och Österländerna, I-III, Sthlm 1826-28: 3 titelvignetter,
bl. a. Hagia Sofia, kpst., och karta över Bosporen.

Hultmark, 1944.

Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734

'Stockholms skärgård. Dalarö - Landsort'. - Stockholm 1933.

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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