KARTOGRAFI OCH BILDLORE

KITCHIN, THOMAS.

1718-84.
Engelsk kopparstickare och geograf. Han graverade en mängd illustrationer för böcker och tidskrifter, och utförde även kartarbeten för geografiska verk. 1773 gav han ut en 'General Atlas' som till 1804 utkom i 12 utgåvor. Ett annat verk, 'New universal Atlas' kom till 1805 i 7 utgåvor. 1778 gav han ut 'Royal English Atlas' som även innehöll arbeten av andra kartografer. På en karta från 1775 betecknar han sig som 'Hydrographer to His Majesty'.

Bland arbeten.
General Atlas.
New universal Atlas.
Royal English Atlas

Phillips - Thieme-Becker.

BRENHOLM, NILS.

1682-1749.
Chief surveyor in Västerbotten province.

Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.

CANTELLI [da VIGNOLA] GIACOMO [JACOBO].

1643-1695.
Cartographer of Modena.
Cantelli är även upphovsman till 'Il Corso del Fiume Reno d'Allemagna, d alla Mosella fino al Mare...'. Karta från 1689 enligt text å kartans nedre del. (RdeT)

Bland arbeten.
Alta Lombardia 1680.
Venice and China 1682.
Brandenburg 1687.
Brunswick 1691.
France 1691.
Italy 1695.
Mercurio Geografico 1688 (with maps).
Pair of globes for the Duke of Modena.
Il Corso del Fiume Reno d'Allemagna, d alla Mosella fino al Mare...

Tooley.

Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734

Ballonger. - 1894-1904. - ur Le Petit Journal.

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."

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.