1754-1820.
Ellicott, a Quaker, was raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His father was a prosperous miller whose family founded Ellicott City, Maryland in 1775. Andrew Ellicott was trained to be a mathematician and surveyor. He conducted several large surveys with David Rittenhouse, the Philadelphia astronomer, mathematician, and clockmaker. President Washington in 1791 asked Ellicott to survey the bounds of the District of Columbia. The following year Washington asked him to complete L'Enfant's plan for the city. Ellicott made some changes to L'Enfant's plan. He changed the alignment of Massachusetts Avenue, eliminated five short radial avenues, added two short radial avenues southeast and southwest of the Capitol, and named the city streets. In less than one month Ellicott had a plan ready for the engravers. A few months later Ellicott, like L'Enfant, found himself at odds with the Commissioners and resigned from the project.
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Flourished 1822-29.
Engraver for Dèpôt de la Marine.
Bland arbeten.
Côtes de Brésil 1822.
du Pérou 1824.
Golfe du Mexique 1826.
Rade de Rio 1820.
Tooley.
Född 1700, dp 2/2, trol. i Malungs sn (Kopp.), där samtliga kyrkböcker för detta år brunnit, död 1755 23/2 i Stockholm (Klara).
Kopparstickare och kartograf. Konduktör vid Fortifikationen. Ingenjör. Son av komministern Petrus B. och Elisabet Persdotter. Ingenjör vid Lantmäterikontoret och föreståndare för dess tryckeri 1739
Bland arbeten.
A. GIESE, Prospect af Stockholms stad, jämte deviser, hörande till frögdebetygelsen vid K. Fredriks hemkomst från Hessen, 1731, kpst.
GRÖNWALL, De lacu Siljan, diss., resp. O. Silieström, Uppsala 1730: Siön Sillian, kpst.
Karta över Uppland. 1742.
Karta över Västmanland, 1742.
Vägvisare til och ifrån alla städer och namnkunnige orter uti Svea och Götha riken samt storfurstendömet Finland, Sthlm 1743.
Karta över Närke. 1745
Karta över Svea och Göta riken med Finland och Norrland, 1747.
Karta över Stockholm med dess malmar och förstäder, 1751.
Karta över Skåne, 1752.
Vägkartor över Sverige och Finland.
Hultmark, 1944.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Strängnäs - Topografiska Corpsen 1868.
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.
