1537-87.
Son till Gerard Mercator. Arbetade med sin bror Rumold (se denne) i fadern Gerard Mercators (se denne) företag.
Prof. Mathematics at Leiden, cartographer.
Bland arbeten.
Bergen op Zoom, Blaeu 1630 etc. and Jansson (1636).
Tooley.
Född 1737 i Auxerre, Frankrike, död 19 mars 1804 i Stockholm.
Desprez var en fransk arkitekt, målare, och grafiker, verksam i Sverige. Desprez föddes i staden Auxerre i Burgund 1737. Han studerade till arkitekt och vann 1770 stora priset i Académie d'architecture i Paris. Han var då 'professeur de dessin ā l'école royale militaire'. Senare fick han understöd av franska konstakademien och gjorde flera resor i Italien.
Desprez kom till Rom 1777 i egenskap av arkitekt och fransk konststipendiat. Han hade två gånger blivit prisbelönad vid byggnadsakademien i Paris, första gången för ett ståtligt och invecklat gravtempel, andra gången för 'ett slott för en hög herre'. I Rom började han att pliktskyldigt studera och avrita de antika byggnadsminnena. Han gjorde sig snart känd som en skicklig och fantasirik avtecknare av kyrkor och ruiner och som en mångsidig talang, etsare, akvarellist och även målare i olja. Den franske målaren Joseph Marie Vien kallade honom 'en ung man full av eld och snille'. Desprez hade knappt blivit hemmastadd i Rom innan han skaffade sig tillstånd a...
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Ålands hav. - Stockholm 1948.
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 linesan 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."