CRONSTEDT, FREDRIK ADOLF ULRIK.
1744-1829. Född i Stockholm d. 1 dec. 1744.
Landshöfding, konstnär. C. blef hofintendent 1765 och företog 1770-73 en längre utrikes resa. I Rom blef han vän med Sergel, studerade konst och inköpte en präktig samling gamla taflor. C. beklädde 1781-1812 landshöfdingsposten i Gefle. Död i Stockholm d. 19 april 1829. Ledamot af Målare- och bildhuggareakademien samt Musik. akademien. C. utförde rätt goda etsningar och porträttmedaljonger. Gift 1777 med friherrinnan Juliana Duvall, som i Gefle stiftade ordenssällskapet »Idka dygden».
Cronstedt som var son till kakelugnens fader, Carl Johan Cronstedt, förekommer med sitt namn på kartor och då som utgivare bl.a. i sin egenskap av landshövding.
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Waesbergen, Johannes Janssonius van.
fl. 1661-81 (JAN JANSSON'S HEIRS)
Van Waesbergen, established as a bookseller in Amsterdam, acquired by inheritance from his father-in-law Jan Jansson many of Jansson's plates including those of the Atlas Minor, the Civitates Orbis Terrarum and the Atlas of the Antique World. These works were republished by him, or after his death in 1681 by his son, also named Johannes. For a time he was associated with Moses Pitt in the abortive attempt in 1680-81 to publish an English version of the major atlases by Blaeu and Jansson.
GERRITSZ [GERARD, GERARDUS, GHERRITSZOON van ASSUM].
Hessel 1581-1632.
Gerritsz was apprenticed to W. J. Blaeu as an engraver before starting in business on his own account. He worked closely with Petrus Plancius and his merit may be judged by the fact that he was appointed Cartographer to the Dutch East India Company in preference to Blaeu and subsequently held the same position in a newly formed West India Company. With the new company he came into touch with Johannes de
Laet for whom he prepared a number of new maps of America in the latter's Nieuwe Wereldt published in 1625. His most important early work was a chart showing Henry Hudson's discoveries in his voyage of 1610-11: it is the first to give an outline of Hudson's Bay and indicates Hudson's belief that he had found a way to the North West Passage.
Engraver, cartographer, publisher and bookseller, b. Assum, apprenticed as engraver to Blaeu, Cartographer to Dutch E. India Co. 1617, fl. 1607; from 1612 using sign 'in de Paskaert' or 'sub signo Tabulae Nauticae'. Addresses: (1) opt Water bij die oude Brug [1609...
Tooley.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Skugglosta, Bromus Benekeni - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
