Ca. 1632-1712. Född i Franche Comte, död i Paris.
Fransk kartograf. Han var från början bildhuggare, men efter att ha gift sig med dottern till en känd kartograf, Nicolas Berey, gick han över till sin svärfars yrke, och ägnade sig åt geografiska studier. Han kom i kontakt med familjen Sanson (se dessa) och övertog till slut merparten av deras kartor. Flera av dessa lät han utföra i större skala. Hans kartor utmärker sig som sällsynt vackra. Hans första kartverk, 'Atlas Nouveau', utkom 1681 med 45 kartor. Det följdes av en rad utgåvor, från 1695 med titeln ändrad till 'Atlas Francois'. 1693 utgav han även ett sjökartverk. 'Le Neptune Francais ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes Marines'. Efter Jaillots död fortsatte vissa medlemmar av hans familj verksamheten fram till 1780.
Jaillot's kartor utmärker sig för storlek och skönhet. Vad som är typiskt för Jaillot är att han ökade kartorna på bredden vilket var en lyckad idé parad med vackra koloreringar, ofta som gränskoloreringar, vilket även gör hans kartor tydliga och lättlästa.
Bland arbeten.
Atlas Nouveau.
Atlas Francois.
'Le Neptune Francais ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes Marines.
Nouv. biogr. gen. - Tooley. RdeT.
1762-1828.
Surveyor in Västergötland Province.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
Engelsk kartritare i början av 1800-talet. 1809 ritade han kartor för Pinkertons (se denne) atlas. 1831 medverkade han vid framtagandet av en atlas över Kanada.
Phillips.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
'Hanöbugten och Bornholm.' - Stockholm 1884.
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.
