(b 1813; d London, 19 Dec 1907).
English engraver. He was educated in Ghent, Belgium, and later at the Royal Academy Schools, London, where he was awarded silver medals in 1839 and 1841. He worked in the mixed mezzotint style and exhibited 43 examples of his work at the Royal Academy between 1841 and 1893. Of Stacpoole’s many plates, perhaps the best-known are those after William Holman Hunt’s Shadow of Death (1873; Manchester, C.A.G.) and the battle subjects of Lady Butler. Stacpoole began work early in 1874 on the engraving of Shadow of Death . The original picture had been bought by Thos Agnew & Sons and was exhibited so widely that, on publication of the engravings in 1877, the sale of proofs alone realized more than £20,000. By January 1879 Stacpoole had received a total of £3560 from the Fine Art Society for his plates after Lady Butler’s Roll Call (1874; British Royal Col.; declared for publication in 1874), Quatre Bras (1875; Melbourne, N.G. Victoria) and Balaclava (1876; Manchester, C.A.G.; both declared in 1876).
Bland arbeten.
Shadow of Death (1873; Manchester, C.A.G.), Lady Butler’s Roll Call (1874; British Royal Col.; declared for publication in 1874), Quatre Bras (1875; Melbourne, N.G. Victoria) and Balaclava (1876; Manchester, C.A.G.; both declared in 1876).
1653-1701.
Officer, kartograf. B. var 1672-74 i utländsk krigstjänst, deltog i hela skånska kriget som fortifikationsofficer, tjänstgjorde sedan som generalkvartermästarlöjtnant i Skåne och inlade stor förtjänst om befästandet av Malmö, bevistade med statsstipendium fälttågen i Flandern 1693-94, överstelöjtnant 1695. B. var en av 1600-talets skickligaste svenska kartografer med en teknik som kartografien i allmänhet kom att uppnå först under 1700-talet.
Under skånska kriget hade B. goda tillfällen att lära känna Skånes topografi och ännu bättre under året 1680, då han drog omkring och avritade ett 50-tal skånska herrgårdar (utgivna av A. Fischer 1756). (En andra upplaga kom 1856 när Buhrmans bilder gavs ut i andra upplagan av Svecia Antiqua et Hodierna, VÖBAM's anm.). På våren 1681 fick B. i uppdrag att kartlägga Jämtland och Värmland, på hösten samma år att kartlägga Skåne. Skånekartan blev färdig 1684, en annan 1687 (original i Krigsarkivet). Den utgör den första tillförlitliga kartan över provinsen och användes a...
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Eric Dahlbergs Suecia antiqua & hodierna. Supplement,
Prospecter af åtskillige märkvärdige byggnader, säterier och herre-gårdar uti Skåne
/ ... och blifvit år 1680 aftagne, ritade och samlade af ingenieur-capitain Burman
; men nu till det allmännas tjenst, förnyade och ... på trycket utgifne år 1756 af
Abraham Fischer
Sv. Uppslag.bok 2:a uppl., band 5 1947, sp.271-72. Litt. H. Richter, "Skånes karta från mitten av 1500-talet till omkr. 1700".
d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon
Born in Paris July 11, 1697 – died January 28, 1782.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (born in Paris July 11, 1697 – January 28, 1782), was both a geographer and cartographer who greatly improved the standards of map-making. His maps of ancient geography, characterized by careful, accurate work and based largely on original research, are especially valuable. He left unknown areas of continents blank and noted doubtful information as such; compared to the lavish maps of his predecessors, his maps looked empty.
Work
D'Anville's map of China and Central Asia (1734) for du Halde's 'Description geographique de la Chine', compiled based on the first systematic geographic survey of the entire Chinese Empire by a team of French Jesuits (ca. 1700)
His passion for geographical research displayed itself from early years: at age of twelve he was already amusing himself by drawing maps for Latin authors. Later, his friendship with the antiquarian, Abbé Longuerue, greatly aided his studies.
His first serious map, that of Ancient Greece, was published when ...
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Pere J. B. du Halde with maps by d'Anville, 'Description geographique de la Chine', 1735.
'Nouvel Atlas de la Chine', 1737.
'Atlas Generale', circa 1740.
'Geographie Ancienne et Abregee', 1769.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Ålands och Åbo Skärgårdar. - Stockholm 1941.
