1715-1786.
Naval officer, serving under the Dutch flag in the 1730s. Took part in battles against Turkish pirates. Shipyard major, vice-admiral and in 1769, governor of Blekinge province.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
Född d. 4 juni 1694. Död d. 1 september 1715 i Arras, Frankrike.
Arkitekt, page, tecknare. Föräldrar: assessorn Magnus Bechius, adlad P., och Helena Catharina Pontin.
P., som blev student i Uppsala 1706, var page hos Carl Gustaf Tessins mor (enligt en anteckning av Tessin på en handteckning i Nationalmuseum) och medföljde Tessin på hans första utrikesresa 1714. Den tyste och tillbakadragne P. skulle vara den unge Tessin behjälplig med att kopiera arkitektur och trädgårdskonst och över huvud taget leda hans konstnärliga studier men avled helt ung i Arras. Sex pennteckningar av P., delvis stora kompositioner, såldes på den Tessinska auktionen 1786. – Representerad i Nationalmusei gravyravdelning med omkring 30 teckningar.
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Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at...
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Automobil-karta över södra och mellersta Sverige. - Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalt 1924.
