1653-1715.
In 1680 was given special endorsement from the Dutch state to print and publish sea charts and sailing instructions. The van Keulen family's best-known work is Nieuwe Groote Ligtende Zee-Fakkel a world atlas in five volumes, published by Johannes's son Gerard and subsequently by Gerard's children and grandchildren.
As we have noted in other biographies in this chapter, the Dutch produced a remarkable number of enterprising and prolific map and chart makers but not even the Blaeu and Jansson establishments could rival the vigour of the van Keulen family whose business was founded in 1680 and continued under their name until 1823 and in other names until 1885 when it was finally wound up and the stock dispersed at auction. Throughout the history of the family, the widows of several of the van Keulens played a major part, after their husbands' deaths, in maintaining the continuity of the business.
The firm was founded by Johannes van Keulen who was registered as a bookseller in Amsterdam in 1678. In 16...
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
I vår förra årsbok berättade vi om Frans Lindström och en del andra Stockholmskonstnärer, som var föga kända. Det var egentligen en omarbetning av en liknande artikel i vår årsbok 1951, då Frans Lindström för första gången gjordes känd för allmänheten. På grund av det stora intresset för Lindströms akvareller har emellertid årsboken 1951 sedan flera år tillbaka varit totalt slut. Att vi återigen tar upp detta ämne beror på att vi alldeles nyligen fått bekräftat att Frans Lindström var vår utan jämförelse produktivaste Stockholmsskildrare i bild och att vi fått tillgång till troligen hela hans konstnärliga kvarlåtenskap.
I slutet av förra året fick vi kontakt med Lindströms systerson Folke Fredin och genom honom med Lindströms dotter, fru Dagny Jansson, den enda kvarlevande av Lindströms tre barn. Hon hade i förvar - på sätt och vis utan att riktigt veta om det - faderns många hundra skisser till akvareller och en mängd bildmaterial av olika slag. Då Lindström avled 80-årig 1954 tog sonen Gösta hand om ...
Ur Stockholms borgargilles årsbok 1973.
Kartograf som 1875 tog fram en tematisk karta där han jämförde befolkningen i Europa.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
'New Map of Boston...' - 1883.
GERRITSZ [GERARD, GERARDUS, GHERRITSZOON van ASSUM].
Biografiska uppgifter:Hessel 1581-1632.
Gerritsz was apprenticed to W. J. Blaeu as an engraver before starting in business on his own account. He worked closely with Petrus Plancius and his merit may be judged by the fact that he was appointed Cartographer to the Dutch East India Company in preference to Blaeu and subsequently held the same position in a newly formed West India Company. With the new company he came into touch with Johannes de
Laet for whom he prepared a number of new maps of America in the latter's Nieuwe Wereldt published in 1625. His most important early work was a chart showing Henry Hudson's discoveries in his voyage of 1610-11: it is the first to give an outline of Hudson's Bay and indicates Hudson's belief that he had found a way to the North West Passage.
Engraver, cartographer, publisher and bookseller, b. Assum, apprenticed as engraver to Blaeu, Cartographer to Dutch E. India Co. 1617, fl. 1607; from 1612 using sign 'in de Paskaert' or 'sub signo Tabulae Nauticae'. Addresses: (1) opt Water bij die oude Brug [1609], (2) by die Lienbaens Brugh [1616], (3) Nieuwe Zijds Voorburgwal [1624], (4) Doelestraat [1627-32].
Engraved 17 Netherlands (1608?, lost)
Gulick Cleve 1610,
Spain 1612-(15),
Besch. van de Samoyeden Landt 1612,
Besch. van de Zeecusten van Ierlandt 1612,
engd. Blaeu's Lithuania 1613,
Russia 1613,
Italy 1617,
MS charts E. Indies, Pacific & c. 1617-22,
maps in Laet's Novus Orbis 1625,
Eendrachts' Land (W. Australia) 1627,
Rotario W. Indies & S. America 1628-32 MSS.
(Tooley.)
