SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

ANCKARSWÄRD, MIKAEL GUSTAF.

Född i Kalmar 25 mars 1792, död 3 maj 1878 i Stockholm.
Bror till Johan August Anckarswärd.
Artist, grefve efter den föregåendes död, f. 25 mars 1792 i Kalmar, utexaminerades 1808 som fänrik från krigsakademien och tjänstgjorde 1809 i arméns
värmländska fördelning såväl vid norska gränsen som i Stockholm. Med Svea lifgarde gjorde han som löjtnant tyska och norska fälttågen 1813 och 1814, blef kapten 1817, s. å. ordonnansofficer och 1829 adjutant hos Karl Johan samt tio år senare öfverstelöjtnant i armén. Därjämte egnade han sig åt konststudier, hufvudsakligen åt landskapsmålningen, och gjorde 1819–22 studieresor i utlandet. 1828 blef han ledamot och 1843 hedersledamot af konstakademien, och han var en af dem, som stiftade konstföreningen, 1832. Under åren 1844–58 var han öfverintendent och preses i konstakademien, hvilken därunder fick förnyade statuter och ny anordning af sitt läroverk och sin förvaltning. Inom vår planschverkslitteratur intog A. på 1820- och 30-talen ett framstående rum genom sina af honom själf litografierade arbeten Sveriges märkvärdiga...
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Fordna och närvarande Sverige

Nordisk Familjebok, Uggleupplagan

TÖRNSTEN, JONAS EDVARD.

1733-1783.
Surveyor in Västerbotten province.

Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.

Cellarius, Andreas.

(c. 1596, Neuhausen, – 1665, Hoorn)
Cellarius was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam.
He was born in Neuhausen (now a part of Worms), and was educated in Heidelberg. The Protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622 when the city came in Catholic hands. His activities are unclear at this time but based on his later works it is conjectured he spent time in Poland and may have even worked as a military engineer there. In 1625 he married Catharina Elt(e)mans in Amsterdam, where he worked as school master of a Latin School. After a brief stay in The Hague, the family moved to Hoorn. From 1637 until his death he was rector of the Latin School in Hoorn, where Pieter Anthoniszoon Overtwater was conrector.
He published on fortification and on Poland.
The minor planet 12618 Cellarius is named in his honour.

Andreas Cellarius

The Dutch-German mathematician and cosmogr...
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Harmonia macrocosmica sea atlas universalis et novus. Amsterdam: G. Valck and P. schenk, 1708.
Folio (530 x 320mm), allegorical title engraved by F. H. van Hoven, printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, letterpress title with contents and 29 double-page engraved cosmographical charts finely coloured by hand, without text.
One of the most fascinating achievement from the golden age of Dutch cartography. The Harmonia macrocosmica is the only atlas of the period dealing with astronomy.
Unlike the late celestial atlases, the Cellarius charts demonstrated various ancient and contemporary cosmological ideas, rather than just the names and positions of the stars. The purpose of the book was to assess different attempts to discover the underlying harmony of the universe. The charts represent the highest levels of seventeenth-century astronomical thought, with the diagram showing aspects of the three great theories on the nature of the universe; the Ptolemaic, the Copernican and the Brahean.

Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.

Vildkaprifol, Lonicera periclymenum - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

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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