Född 1727 22/6 på Västervik i Varnums sn (Värml), död 1793 26/12 i Vadstena.
Lantmätare, kartograf och kopparstickare. Ingenjör. Broder till Jacob Gillberg. Student vid Uppsala universitet 1748. Volontär vid Fortifikationen 1749. Avlade lantmäteriexamen. 1754, kommissionslantmätare 1757. Postmästare i Vadstena 1785-90
Bland arbeten.
J. L. GILLBERG, Historisk, oeconomisk och geographisk beskrifning öfwer Malmö hus lähn, Lund 1765: karta över Malmöhus hövdingedöme.
DENS., Historisk, oeconomisk och geographisfc beskrifning öfver Christianstads län, Lund 1767: karta över Kristianstads hövdingedöme.
Karta över Gästrikland och Hälsingland, efter O. Insulander 1789.
Hultmark, 1944.
Död 1684. (?)
c. 1645-91. (?)
Koppargraverare och kartförläggare, Hugo Allards kartor baserade sig ofta på kartor av J. Blaeu, N. Visscher, J. Jansonnius och F. de Wit. Han arbetade tillsammans med sin son Carel Allard som även kom att efterträda honom.
The Allard family ran an active publishing business in Amsterdam in the latter half of the seventeenth century. Most of their publications consisted of atlases made up of maps and town plans by their more famous predecessors, Blaeu, Jansson, de Wit, Visscher and others, but one of their most attractive and interesting sheet maps was of New England (Hugo Allard, 1656), based on Jansson, which included a view of New Amsterdam by C. J. Visscher.
(1812–1879) was a British born American artist working in watercolor, gouache, lithography, and engraving.
Hill's work focussed primarily upon natural subjects including landscapes, still lifes, and ornithological and zoological subjects. In the 1850s, influenced by John Ruskin and Hill's association with American followers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, his attention turned from technical illustration toward still life and landscape.
Hill was the son of British aquatint engraver John Hill. He emigrated with his parents from London to the United States in 1819, initially living in Philadelphia. In 1822 the family moved to New York, where Hill apprenticed in aquatint engraving in his father's shop.
In 1838 Hill married Catherine Smith - their children included the astronomer George William Hill and the painter John Henry Hill.
In watercolor and aquatint engravings, Hill employed a stipple technique, building up planes of softly gradated colors made of tiny brushstrokes–a process commonly seen in painted miniatures. Applied to a larger scale on canvas the result was a form of objective real...
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Finlaij - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
Biografiska uppgifter:1725-1802. Född i Paris, död i Carrières de Charenton.
Fransk kopparstickare. Han lär ha skapat uppemot 1200 kartor, stadsplaner och liknande arbeten, bl a. för d'Anville (se denne) och Robert de Vaugondy.
(Thieme-Becker.)
