(1552-1629)
One of the most famous of English mapmakers, the historian John Speed decided in 1611 to publish a volume of maps to accompany his History of Great Britain. The maps were instantly popular, running to seven editions by 1676. Sudbury and Humble contracted Jodocus Hondius to engrave the plates in Amsterdam. From 1605 to 1610 Speed sent the information to Hondius, allowing Hondius to compose these famous maps.
Sotheby's
'A fine full figure portrait of the swedish king Karl XIV Johan (Jean Baptiste Bernadotte) executed by Sweden´s finest engraver Christian Forssell. This is the best of his swedish work. Forssell worked for many years in Amsterdam and Paris and had a fine reputation as an engraver. Among other things he oversaw the production of the engravings to Napoleon´s great work on Egypt. The present engraving is an iconic image of the king executed after the french painter Francois Gerard´s original oil painting.'
Hammarlund.
1852-1915. Född och död i Bergen.
Norsk ingenjör. 1875 utexaminerades han från Chalmerska Institutet i Göteborg och arbetade sedan som ingenjör i olika städer, tills han 1880 upprättade 'Det private Ingeniör- och Opmaalingskontor' i Bergen. Han utförde en rad kaj-, väg- och järnvägsbyggen och blev 1905 anställd som hamningenjör i Bergen. Hedersmedlem av den 'Norske Ingeniörforening'.
T.U. 1914.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Regni Norvegiae. - Joh. Bapt. Homann. Ca 1700.