Was the most important member of an Augsburg family of artists and publishers. He was the German representative of the 'Vue d'Optique' , a genre of copper engravings showing in the size of this here shown print the architectural 'wonders of the world' to people mainly during fairs. The prints were pushed into a view box and the viewers, one at a time, could look through a lens to see the prints inserted into the box by the operator, for money, of course. There were French, Italian, Spanish, publishers of Vue d'Optique prints. But the most famous and the most true to facts ones came from the Augsburg workshop of G.B. Probst. He produced ca. 400 of them, not only views of places, but also a variety of other subject matters. While most prints of this genre were loudly and heavily colored, a small series was left black and white, truly showing their artistic value beyond the fulfilment of curiosity at fairs.
Född 1774 1/10 på Malma i Badelunda sn (Västm.), död 1855 3/6 i Stockholm (Hedv. El.).
Miniatyr- och landskapsmålare, tecknare, gravör, litograf. Ritmästare. Major. Son av Jacob Gillberg och Agneta Dorotea Hellberg. Elev av fadern samt vid Konstakademien från dec. 1785. Fortsatte sedermera sin utbildning för Louis Belanger och Johan Fredrik Martin. Konduktör vid Fortifikationen s. å., löjtnant i armén 1809, erhöll 1832 avsked som kapten i Ingenjörskåren och fick 1840 majors n. h. o. v. Ritmästare vid Krigsakademien å Karlberg 1811-40.
Bland arbeten.
S. G. HERMELIN, Special kartor och ritningar till beskrifning öfver Sverige, Sthlm 1806: Utsigt af fjällsträckningen emellan Herjeådalen och Norrige från Funnesdalsberget, efter C. M. Robsahm 1796, kpst., jämte 3 lappar, bl. a. Sjockjocks lappen Pål Larsson Tjerkats från Luleå lappmark, akvatint.
Principer uti landskaps teckningen för cadetterna vid Kongl. Krigs academien, efter J. Gillberg, 1793, titelblad och 2 trädstudier, crayongravyrer.
Hultmark, 1944.
c. 1703-66
HENDRIK DE LETH (THE YOUNGER) ft. 1788
Engraver, publisher and painter, active in Amsterdam, worked for the Visscher family and eventually took over the business. De Leth is better known as an artist and engraver than as a cartographer although his historical atlas of the Netherlands was a very popular work. His son, Hendrik de Leth (the Younger), published a World Atlas in 1788.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Håtunaholm - Nay 1881.
