SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

Roggeveen, Arent.

fl. 1665-79.
Roggeveen was a land surveyor and mathematician by profession, working in Middelburg where the Dutch East and West India Companies maintained collections of hydrographic manuscripts and charts, including Spanish portulans of the West Indies. No doubt through contacts there Roggeveen became interested in navigation and he compiled a pilot book of largescale charts of the West Indies and parts of the American coasts, with a second volume of the coasts of West Africa. These were the first such charts printed in Holland.

GROS, C.

Engelsk kartograf i början av 1800-talet. Medarbetare vid C.V. Lavoisnes 'A new genealogical, historical and chronological atlas' 1807. Den första utgåvan innehöll bara historiska tabeller men i senare engelska och amerikanska utgåvor bifogades kartor av Gros.


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A new genealogical, historical and chronological atlas.

Phillips.

Strahlenberg, Philip Johan

Född Stralsund 1676, död Halland 1747.
Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (Stralenberg), född Philip Johan Tabbert 1676 i Stralsund, död i Fröllinge, Getinge församling, 1747, var en svensk officer och kartograf av pommersk härkomst. 1707 adlades han och tog namnet von Strahlenberg.
Han ingick 1694 i krigstjänst, blev 1701 regementskvartermästare och 1703 kapten vid Södermanlands regemente. Han deltog i striderna vid belägringen av Thorn (1703) och i slagen vid Fraustadt (1706), Holowczyn (1708) och Poltava (1709).
Efter slaget vid Poltava blev han, under försök att finna och rädda sin broder, tillfångatagen och kom som fånge till Sibirien, där han vistades under flera år. Under denna tid företog han flera resor i landet och utarbetade tillsammans med Johan Anton von Matérn över detsamma en karta, som kom i Peter den stores händer och väckte hans synnerliga beundran. Trots att tsaren själv erbjöd Strahlenberg att i rysk tjänst få överta ledningen av ett lantmäterikontor, så återvände han efter fredsslutet (1721) utarmad och sjuklig till Sverige, ...
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Philip Johan von Strahlenberg. Vorbericht eines zum Druck verfertigten Werckes von der Grossen Tartarey und dem Königreiche Siberien. mit einem Anhang von Groß-Russland. Schneider, Stockholm 1726

Philip Johan von Strahlenberg. Das Nord- und Östliche Theil von Europa und Asia, in so weit solches das gantze Russische Reich mit Sibirien und der grossen Tatarey in sich begriffet. in Verlegung des Autoris, Stockholm 1730.

Nova descriptio geographica Tattariæ magnæ

Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.

Isle de Madagascar autrement Isle de S.t Laurent. - J. N. Bellin ca 1747.

Dudley Chase, Ernest.

Pictorial maps - maps with vignette illustrations on top of the geographical content - go back practically to the known beginning of cartographic history: Petroglyph maps dating from the Neolithic sometimes are found combining geographic features with representations of animals, people or dwellings.

Vignette insets or overlays are also found throughout the period of printed maps. But maps richly overlaid with small pictures are more commonly found from the 19th century onwards. (A notable exception is the Carta Marina of Olaus Magnus, published in Venice in 1539, which presents a depiction of Scandinavia with more than 100 small woodcut illustrations of animals, real and imagined, and of people pursuing all kinds of activities, such as hunting, fishing, skiing, etc.)

Ernest Dudley Chase was an exceptional creator of pictorial maps. Though he worked primarily as a graphic artist and businessman in the greeting card industry, Chase also designed, drew, and self-published more than 50 pictorial maps, each densely packed with detailed vignettes reflecting the areas portrayed. In this map of the United States, each state's capitol building is shown, as well as many other vignettes of buildings, famous sights (e.g. Niagra Falls, Hoover Dam) and pictures of people pursuing outdoor activities (fishing, horseback riding, panning for gold, etc.) appropriate to the particular region. In addition to the vignettes in the body of the map, there are 32 vignettes drawn in the blank areas outside the country's borders, mostly showing famous buildings, and 4 vignettes in the corners showing symbols of the country's natural bounty: a bull's head, a longhorn sheep's head, a sheaf of wheat, and a branch from a cotton plant.

Most of Chase's maps display a sense of humor. Though this map is mostly serious and respectful in its portrayal of the United States, the humor creeps in from time to time, such as the small collection of broken hearts outside of Reno, Nevada.

Since Chase published and sold his maps on his own, many of them bear his manuscript signature, as can be seen in the bottom margin, at the left, in this example.

In March, 2003 the Harvard Map Collection presented an exhibit of the pictorial maps of Ernest Dudley Chase, curated by Joseph Garver. The Boston Map Society met on the opening night, and the members were given a guided tour of the exhibit.

To see more online images of Chase's maps, click here to go to the Harvard Library online catalogue (Hollis), enter 'Ernest Dudley Chase' in the 'Search For' field, and click 'Search'. Follow the 'Internet Links' to see images for the individual maps.
Bland arbeten:
A Pictorial Map of North America 1945.
A Pictorial Map of South America 1942.

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