1750-1826.
Officer and gunnery chief in the galler fleet. Served as lieutenant in the amphibious corps' Swedish and Finnish squadrons. Was aboard the frigate Svarta örn in a 1781 convoy expedition to the Mediterranean. Member of learned societies at home and abroad.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
(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...
Holländsk karthandlare i början av 1700-talet. Han hade sin verksamhet i Amsterdam och sökte 1714 privileguim på utgivning av en navigationsatlas. Den kom ut året därpå med titeln 'Atlas de la Navigation'. 1739 blev den utgiven på nytt av R.&J. Ottens (se denne) och 1745 kom en holländsk utgåva med titeln 'Atlas van Zeevaert en koophandel door de geheele wereldt'.
Bland arbeten.
Atlas de la Navigation.
'Atlas van Zeevaert en koophandel door de geheele wereldt.
Kleerkooper. - Phillips.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Gullviva, Primula veris - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
