1699-1755.
Se Longman & Co.
Född 17 oktober 1802 i Stockholm, död 3 juli 1878 i Stockholm.
Johan Elias Cardon var en svensk konstnär, litograf och hovgravör.
Gift med Britta Kristina Sundberg född 14 september 1812 död 7 juli 1894. Far till två döttrar, Ida Cardon född 13 juli 1839 och död 10 mars 1881 och Kerstin Cardon samt bror till litograferna Carl Oskar och Oskar Daniel Cardon.
Cardon var av vallonsk släkt. Efter ett års studier i handelslära i Härnösand hoppade Cardon av utbildningen för att bli elev hos kopparstickaren Christian Forssell i Stockholm samtidigt studerade han vid Konstakademien. På ett kungligt stipendium studerade han litografins teknik i Paris 1830-1831 och 1833-1834 samt i München 1832. Han blev agré vid Konstakademien 1835 och ledamot 1843 med titeln kunglig litograf.
Tillsammans med A. M. Spong startade han 1835 ett litografiskt tryckeri där man införde de moderna litografimetoder Cardon studerat i Tyskland och Frankrike.
Hans produktion omfattar omkring 600 blad huvudsakligen med porträtt bilder. Hans största samlade porträttverk gavs ut 1842 under namnet Gal...
HENRIK SJÖFARAREN, HENRIQUE EL NAVEGADÔR.
1394-1460.
Portugisk prins som runt 1430 lät inrätta ett kartografiskt centrum i södra Portugal. Var 'den store vägrödjaren som slutade med upptäckandet av sjövägen till Indien.'
Svensk uppslagsbok.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
'Sjuntorps Bomullsspinnerier.' - Gustaf Pabst 1870-1879.
Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
Biografiska uppgifter:1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at least one authority believes they existed only in proof form until 1617 when Willem Blaeu issued them with a Latin edition of Camden's Britannia. At this stage two maps were added, one of the British Isles and the other of Yorkshire, the latter derived from Saxton. To confuse things further the title page of this edition is signed 'Guilielmus noster Janssonius', which is the Latinized form of Blaeu's name commonly used up to 1619.
At some time after this the plates came into the possession of Speed's publishers, George Humble, who in 1627, the year in which he published a major edition of Speed's Atlas, also issued the Keere maps as a pocket edition. For these he used the descriptive texts of the larger Speed maps and thereafter they were known as Miniature Speeds. In fact, of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original van den Keere plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further re-issues up to 1676.
