SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

NORDENCREUTZ, JAKOB.

Född 12 dec. 1671 i Nyland, död l mars 1747 i Stockholm,
Landtmätare, erhöll efter verksamhet i Ingermanland, Västmanland samt vid landtmäterikontoret år 1710 fullmakt att vara direktör öfver landtmäteriet i Sverige och Finland samt underliggande provinser. Han adlades 1719 med namnet N. (han hette förut Hagman). Under N:s chefstid lades ett nytt verksamhetsområde till landtmätarna därigenom, att justeringen af mått och vikt anförtroddes dem genom ett k. br. 1735, hvarjämte ett icke obetydligt antal geografiska mätningar utfördes. 1725 utfärdades ny instruktion för landtmätarna, i hvilken bl. a. infördes föreskrift, att handlingarna ang. jorddelningar skulle inges till ord. ting och stadfästas. 1734 erhöll N. tillstånd (bekräftadt med privilegium 1738) att låta trycka provinskartor o. d. För ändamålet inköptes särskild tryckpress, som uppställdes inom landtmäterikontoret, hvarefter åtskilliga provinskartor utgåfvos. Sedan genom ett k. br. 1740 förordnats, att landsskillnaderna emellan särskilda höfdingdömen skulle afmätas, utfärdade N. 9 juni s. å. cirkulärbref til...
Bland arbeten.
1739. Charta öfwer Mälaren [Kartografiskt material] / med Kongl. Maijts nådigste privilegio utgiwen af dess Lantmäterij contoir igenom Jacob Nordencreutz ; [graverad av] E. Geringius sculpsit.

HONDIUS, JODUCUS d.y.

Son till Jodocus Hondius d.ä.

SAYER, ROBERT.

1725-94.
Engelsk konsthandlare och kartförläggare. Han gav bl.a. ut 'Atlas Britanniquee' (1766), 'English Atlas' (1787) samt en atlas med 41 kartor tryckta under åren 1757-94. Förutom kartorna känner man till en rad koppartryck som har hans namn och adress men däremot inga som han själv utfört.
Sayer hade sin affär på No. 53 Fleet Street i London.

Bland arbeten.
Atlas Britanniquee.
English Atlas.
The Seven United Provinces, with Their Roads and Divisions.

Phillips. - Thieme-Becker.

Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.

HILL, JOHN WILLIAM

Biografiska uppgifter:(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 realism in contrast with more common romanticized works of mid-19th century American painting. In 1829, at the age of 17, Hill began exhibiting watercolors and engravings produced in his father's studio at the Brooklyn Art Association and the National Academy of Design. In 1833, at the age of 21, Hill was elected to associate membership in the National Academy of Design.

In his early 20s Hill began work for the New York State Geological Survey, first creating a series of topographic studies and overhead views of principle American cities and towns. This work was distinct for its accuracy of arial perspective and recording minute architectural detail. These portraits of urban settlement required frequent travel to observe, sketch, and map before creating finished watercolor studies. The completed watercolors were then recreated as color lithographic art and published by the Smith Brothers, a New York City publisher.

Hill's work with the New York State Geological Survey continued later with his illustration of James Ellsworth De Kay's Zoology of New York State, or; The New-York Fauna. Part II, Birds published in 1844. Like John James Audubon's bird portraits, Hill's were painted with an objective eye, documenting accurate anatomy and colors, and capturing the animal's natural countenance.

While in his early 40s Hill read John Ruskin's Modern Painters, and became fascinated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The Pre-Raphaelite movement's combination of realism with increased emotional content appealed to Hill. Hill championed Pre-Raphaelite painting methods in the United States, but was less fascinated with their ideals. in 1863, with art critic Clarence Cook, geologist Clarence King, and architect Russell Sturgis, Hill helped to found the Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art. For the remainder of Hill's life he focussed upon landscapes, mostly of the mountainous areas of New England and New York state. Hill's paintings and engravings are found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Amon Carter Museum, Fogg Museum, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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