APIAN, PETER (Apian, Appianus, Bienewitz, Bennewitz, Panewitz).
Född 1495 i Leisnig i Saxen.
Se A. Ortelii "Catalogus cartographorum" av Leo Bagrow. Del 1. Gotha Justus Perthes 1928.
Pictorial maps - maps with vignette illustrations on top of the geographical content - go back practically to the known beginning of cartographic history: Petroglyph maps dating from the Neolithic sometimes are found combining geographic features with representations of animals, people or dwellings.
Vignette insets or overlays are also found throughout the period of printed maps. But maps richly overlaid with small pictures are more commonly found from the 19th century onwards. (A notable exception is the Carta Marina of Olaus Magnus, published in Venice in 1539, which presents a depiction of Scandinavia with more than 100 small woodcut illustrations of animals, real and imagined, and of people pursuing all kinds of activities, such as hunting, fishing, skiing, etc.)
Ernest Dudley Chase was an exceptional creator of pictorial maps. Though he worked primarily as a graphic artist and businessman in the greeting card industry, Chase also designed, drew, and self-published more than 50 pictorial map...
Bland arbeten.
A Pictorial Map of North America 1945.
A Pictorial Map of South America 1942.
fl. 1706 - ca 1740.
Bookseller and printer in Brussels whose major work was a very large-scale map of Belgium and Luxembourg, much copied by other publishers.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Irland. - Weiland 1837.
