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ALLARD, HUGO [Hugh / Huych].

Död 1684. (?)
c. 1645-91. (?)
Koppargraverare och kartförläggare, Hugo Allards kartor baserade sig ofta på kartor av J. Blaeu, N. Visscher, J. Jansonnius och F. de Wit. Han arbetade tillsammans med sin son Carel Allard som även kom att efterträda honom.

The Allard family ran an active publishing business in Amsterdam in the latter half of the seventeenth century. Most of their publications consisted of atlases made up of maps and town plans by their more famous predecessors, Blaeu, Jansson, de Wit, Visscher and others, but one of their most attractive and interesting sheet maps was of New England (Hugo Allard, 1656), based on Jansson, which included a view of New Amsterdam by C. J. Visscher.


HATON, CLAUDE.

Död efter 1727.
Fransk kopparstickare, elev av Ch. Simonneau, inkallades till Sverige av N. Tessin för att gravera ritningarna till Stockholms slott, vilka stuckos 1703-1712 i betydande format.

Kopparstickare.(Födelse- och dödsår okända).
Född fransman och elev af Ch. Simonneau, inkallades af N. Tessin för att gravera ritningarna till Stockholms nya slott. Dessa blad af mycket stort format begynte han utföra omkr. 1703, och omkr. 1712 voro de fulländade. H. underhölls i Stockholm h. o. h. [helt och hållet] på Tessins bekostnad, så länge detta arbete varade. 1711-27 utförde H. dessutom en och annan boktitel samt åtskilliga tämligen groft graverade porträtt. Som konstnärlig gravör är han af underordnad betydelse.

Efter inventeringen av koppargravyrerna till Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna 1725 inför första upplagans inbindning så kallades bl. a. Haton att retuschera och laga de plåtar som skadats sedan de graverats (i vissa fall över 50 år tidigare). Haton är inte nämnd såsom gravör på någon av plåtarna.


Sv Uppsl. bok 2:a uppl. bd 12 1949 s. 1.166. (Nordisk familjebok, andra upplagan) B.L.

Stacpoole, Frederick.

(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).


Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.


Hässlebrodd, Milium effusum - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

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Covens et Mortier

Biografiska uppgifter:1721 - ca 1862.
The Amsterdam publishing firm of Covens and Mortier (1721 - c. 1862) was the successor to the extensive publishing empire built by Frenchman Pierre Mortier (1661 - 1711). Upon Mortier's death in 1711 his firm was taken over by his son, Cornelius Mortier (1699 - 1783). Cornelius married the sister of Johannes Covens (1697 - 1774) in 1821 and, partnering with his brother in law, established the Covens and Mortier firm. Under the Covens and Mortier imprint, Cornelius and Pierre republished the works of the great 17th and early 18th century Dutch and French cartographers De L'Isle, Allard, Jansson, De Wit, and Ottens among others. They quickly became one of the largest and most prolific Dutch publishing concerns of the 18th century. The firm and its successors published thousands of maps over a 120 year period from 1721 to the mid-1800s. During their long lifespan the Covens and Mortier firm published as Covens and Mortier (1721-1778), J. Covens and Son (1778 - 94) and Mortier, Covens and Son (1794 - c. 1862)

Under the heading Pieter Mortier we give some details of the extensive publishing business which he built up in Amsterdam and which, after his death, was subsequently taken over by his son, the above-named Cornelis. In 1721 Cornelis married the sister of Johannes Covens and in the same year he and Johannes entered into partnership as publishers under the name Covens and Mortier which, with its successors, became one of the most important firms in the Dutch map publishing business.
Their prolific Output over the years included reissues of general atlases by Sanson, Jaillot, Delisle, Visscher, de Wit (whose stock they acquired) and others (often with re-engraved maps), atlases of particular countries including Germany, England and Scotland and others in Europe, pocket atlases, town plans and, from about 1730 onwards, a series under the title Nieuwe Atlas, some consisting of as many as 900 maps by various cartographers and publishers. As there is no conformity about these volumes they were presumably made up to special order and only general details of publication can be quoted in a work of this size.

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