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 map...
Bland arbeten.
A Pictorial Map of North America 1945.
A Pictorial Map of South America 1942.
HOGENBERG, FRANZ (Frans / Franciscus).
Född mellan ca. 1535 och 1540 i Mecheln (Malines) i Belgien och död 1590 i Köln enl. uppgift.
Målare, graverare, etsare och förläggare. Son till kopparstickaren och målaren Nikolaus Hogenberg vilken var född i München och av tysk börd. Hogenberg gick i lära hos sin styvfar, kartografen Hendrik Terbruggen i Mecheln, och fick därigenom kontakt med kartografin. Hogenberg flyttade sedan till Antwerpen där han utförde arbeten i samarbete med bl.a. Hieronymous Cock. Hogenberg utförde i Antwerpen även kopparplåtarna till flertalet av Ortelius kartor, första utgåvan, som utkom 1570. Det är möjligt att Hogenberg även besökte både Poiters, 1560, och England, 1568. Efter religiösa oroligheter i Nederländerna 1570 så flyttade Hogenberg till Köln där han sammanträffade med Georg Braun vilken han kände sedan tiden i Antwerpen. De påbörjade då arbetet på 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum'. I ett brev från Braun till Ortelius daterat 31 oktober 1571 så insinuerar Braun att 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' var Hogenbergs idé då han kallar den 'Mäster Frans' bok om städer'. Majoriteten av gravyerna i 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' är gj...
Bland arbeten.
Civitates Orbis Terrarum.
VÖBAM.
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Stackelberg - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
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.)
