(1812–1879) was a British born American artist working in watercolor, gouache, lithography, and engraving.
Hill's work focussed primarily upon natural subjects including landscapes, still lifes, and ornithological and zoological subjects. In the 1850s, influenced by John Ruskin and Hill's association with American followers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, his attention turned from technical illustration toward still life and landscape.
Hill was the son of British aquatint engraver John Hill. He emigrated with his parents from London to the United States in 1819, initially living in Philadelphia. In 1822 the family moved to New York, where Hill apprenticed in aquatint engraving in his father's shop.
In 1838 Hill married Catherine Smith - their children included the astronomer George William Hill and the painter John Henry Hill.
In watercolor and aquatint engravings, Hill employed a stipple technique, building up planes of softly gradated colors made of tiny brushstrokes–a process commonly seen in painted miniatures. Applied to a larger scale on canvas the result was a form of objective real...
Norsk litograf. Han startade på 1850-talet en litografisk byrå som nämns fram till år 1882. 1859 gav han ut en 'Godtkjöbs-Atlas' som senare kom i flera utgåvor. Från hans byrå stammar en mängd kartor av olika slag, stadskartor, väg- och järnvägskartor, fickkartor m.m. Av hans arbeten kan nämnas 'Detailkart i 74 Blade over Christiania' (1880).
Bland arbeten.
Godtkjöbs-Atlas.
Detailkart i 74 Blade over Christiania.
U.B.
Ca. 1590-1664. Född i Arnheim, död i Amsterdam.
Holländsk bokhandlare och kartograf. Han var först bokhandlare i sin födelsestad men flyttade till Amsterdam efter att han 1612 gift sig med en av Jodocus Hondius döttrar. År 1616 kom hans första egna kartarbeten, som var kartor över Frankrike och Italien. 1617 gav han ut Ptolomaeus geografi. Han lagade även jordglober. Tillsammans med sin svåger Henrik Hondius gav han 1633 ut Mercator-Hondius atlasen i två band och 1635 gav han ut ytterligare tre band. Flera utgåvor följde och det blev slutligen 6 band. 1637 gav han ut sjökartverket 'Le Nouveau Phaot de la Mer' med 51 kartor. 1657 kom 'Theatrum exhibens illustriores.. civitates' i 8 band, och under åren 1658-61 'Novus Atlas' i 11 band. Janssonius hade en utbredd verksamhet i Skandinavien. I Köpenhamn låg en betydande filial och 1647 drev han ett tryckeri med bokhandel i Stockholm. 1650 arbetade även hans son med detta, men ingen av dem upphöll sig i Stockholm. Filialen där drevs av en ställföreträdare som 1664 övertog tryckeriet för egen räkning. Janssonius...
Bland arbeten.
Le Nouveau Phaot de la Mer.
Theatrum exhibens illustriores.. civitates.
Novus Atlas.
Kleerkooper. - Klemming. - Skåne. - Tooley.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Sveriges ätliga och giftiga svampar - Fries - 1861
DODOENS, REMBERT. [DODONAEUS, REMBERTUS] [DODONAEI, REMBERTI]
Biografiska uppgifter:Mechelen June 29, 1517 – Leyden March 10, 1585
Rembert Dodoens was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus.
In 1530 he started his studies of medicine, cosmography and geography at the University of Louvain, where he graduated in 1535. He established himself as a physician in Mechelen in 1538. He married Kathelijne De Bruyn(e) in 1539. He had a short stay in Basel (1542-1546). He turned down a chair at the University of Louvain in 1557. He equally turned down an offer to become court physician of emperor Philip II of Spain. He became the court physician of the Austrian emperor Rudolph II in Vienna (1575-1578). He then became professor in medicine at the University of Leiden in 1582.
Dodoens' herbal Cruydeboeck with 715 images (1554) was influenced by that of Leonhart Fuchs. He divided the plant kingdom in six groups. It treated in detail especially the medicinal herbs, which made this work, in the eyes of many, a pharmacopoeia.
It was translated first into French in 1557 by Charles de L'Ecluse ('Histoire des Plantes') and later into Latin in 1583. In his times, it was the most translated book after the Bible. It became a work of worldwide renown, used as a reference book for two centuries.
Dodoens's last book, Stirpium historiae pemptades sex (1583) was the Latin translation of his Cruydeboeck. It was used as a source by John Gerard for his Herball.
Dodoens is commemorated in the plant genus Dodonaea, which was named after him by Carolus Linnaeus.
Bland arbeten:
Herbarium (1533)
Den Nieuwen Herbarius (1543)
Cosmographica in astronomiam et geographiam isagoge (1548)
De frugum historia (1552)
Trium priorum de stirpium historia commentariorum imagines (1553)
Posteriorum trium de stirpium historia commentariorum imagines (1554)
Cruydeboeck (1554)
Physiologices medicinae tabulae (1580)
Medicinalium observationum exempla rara (1581)
Stirpium historiae pemptades sex (1583)
Praxis medica (1616) (posthumous)
Ars medica, ofte ghenees-kunst (1624) (posthumous)
