1645-ca. 1718. Född i Elberfeld i Preussen, död i Amsterdam.
Holländsk kopparstickare och kartograf. Han kom i tidiga år till Holland och blev elev till kopparstickare Gerard Valck (se denne) i Amsterdam. Han utförde till att börja med topografiska planscher, senare porträtt och stick med historiska och bibliska motiv. Totalt känner man till över 600 av hans arbeten. Tillsammans med sin lärare och svärfar, G. Valck, drev han en omfattande konst- och karthandel, vari de bl.a. tog upp J. Janssonius' (se denne) atlas. 1702 gav han ut en samling stadsöversikter, 'Hecatompoli' i 100 blad, och ca. 1709 en 'Atlas Contractus'. 1731 upprättade hans änka och sonen Leonard Schenk en överenskommelse om firmans framtid. En annan son, Peter Schenk, hade under åren 1730-50 en bokhandel i Amsterdam och var även kartutgivare.
Bland arbeten.
Hecatompoli.
Atlas Contractus.
Kleerkooper. - Phillips. - Thieme-Becker. - Tooley.
1767-1848.
Thackara was eight months old when he and his parents came to Philadelphia from England. He apprenticed with Robert Scott and James Trenchard as an engraver from 1786 to 1789. In 1790 he married James Trenchard's sister Hannah. Thackara was curator for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1816 to 1828, and he is listed as an engraver in the Philadelphia City Directories from 1791 to 1833. His partnership with John Vallance is listed in the 1794 City Directory. He and his son William formed the firm of Thackara and Son in 1832. Thackara was elected Commissioner of the District of Southwark Philadelphia in 1797, and served as clerk of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1807 to 1810.
Washington Map Society.
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...
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
'Öresund norra delen.' - Stockholm 1936.
