"A fine full figure portrait of the swedish king Karl XIV Johan (Jean Baptiste Bernadotte) executed by Sweden´s finest engraver Christian Forssell. This is the best of his swedish work. Forssell worked for many years in Amsterdam and Paris and had a fine reputation as an engraver. Among other things he oversaw the production of the engravings to Napoleon´s great work on Egypt. The present engraving is an iconic image of the king executed after the french painter Francois Gerard´s original oil painting."
Hammarlund.
1758-1826. Född i Edinburgh, död i Paris.
Skotsk historiker. Efter att ha studerat rättsvetenskap under en tid, utvecklade han från 1780 ett rikt författarskap och hade bl.a. stora förtjänster med sina utgåvor av äldre skotsk folkdiktning. I övrigt omfattade hans författarskap många olika specialfält inom historia. Bland hans främsta verk kan nämnas "History of Scotland" (1797). Han gav även ut flera geografiska arbeten, som "Voyages and Travels", ett mästerverk om 16 band (1807-14) och "Modern Geography" (1802). Hans "New Modern Atlas" kom 1808-09 och räknas som ett arbete av hög kvalitet.
Bland arbeten.
History of Scotland. Voyages and Travels. Modern Geography. New Modern Atlas.
Dict. nat. biogr. - Tooley.
Sonson till Nicolas Sanson (se denne).
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Grevskapet Erbach. - Blaeu 1643/44.
Olaus Magnus text till den berömda kartan "Carta Marina".
Texten finns även på katalanska, spanska och engelska.
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Porträtt på Gerard Mercator och Jodocus Hondius.
"Striking image showing Mercator and Hondius in their idealized workshop.
This famous portrait of two of the most important mapmakers during the Golden Age of Dutch cartography was engraved by Coletta Hondius, as a tribute to her late husband, shortly after his death. Gerard Mercator is shown with his successor, Jodocus Hondius, seated at a table surrounded by the implements of their trade. The fine portrait is set within an elaborate strapwork framework that includes a wall map of Europe.
Gerard Mercator is renowned as the cartographer who created a world map representing new projections of sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines—an innovation which, to this day, enhances the simplicity and safety of navigation. In his own day, Mercator was the world's most famous geographer. He created a number of wall maps early in his career, as well as one of the earliest modern world Atlases in 1595. Although this was the first appearance of the word Atlas in a geographical context, Mercator used it as a neologism for a treatise on the creation, history and description of the universe, not simply a collection of maps. He chose the word as a commemoration of King Atlas of Mauretania, whom he considered to be the first great geographer.
Jodocus Hondius was a Dutch engraver and cartographer. He is best known for his early maps of the New World and Europe and for continuing publication of Gerard Mercator's World Atlas. He also helped establish Amsterdam as the center of cartography in Europe in the 17th century. In England, Hondius publicized the work of Francis Drake, who had made a circumnavigation of the world in the late 1570s. In 1604, he purchased the plates of Gerard Mercator's Atlas from Mercator's grandson and continued publication of the Atlas, adding his own maps over the next several decades. Hondius later published a pocket version Atlas Minor."
