Middleton, previously a captain in the employ of The Hudson Bay Company, was financed by Arthur Dobbs to explore the north-western extremities of Hudson Bay in search of a north-western passage. The expedition, from 1741-42, should have disproved notions of such a passage, but the increasingly delusional Dobbs convinced himself that Middleton had deliberately falsified his findings, and mounted an attack on the captain’s integrity, using a series of rather dubious maps distorted to support his viewpoint.
Middleton’s chart over Hudson Bay, published before the eruption of the controversy, is of great importance as the attempt at an accurate survey of the west coast of Hudson Bay (Cumming et al, Exploration of North America, p. 188), and the only reliable printed cartographic record of the captain’s discoveries. Surprisingly, the chart was not included in Middleton’s book defending his reputation, and is now rare.
Bland arbeten.
Hudson Bay.
Sotheby's
Född 1649.
Holländsk-fransk kopparstickare. 1667-74 omtalas han i Amsterdam, från ca. 1686 i Paris där han utförde kopparstick för verket 'Les Forces de l'Europe' (1695), N. de Fers 'Le Théatre de la Guerre' (1705) och en rad andra kartverk.
Bland arbeten.
Les Forces de l'Europe.
Le Théatre de la Guerre.
Phillips - Thieme-Becker.
'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.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Sankt Pers nycklar, Orchis masculus - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
