(1812–1879) was a British born American artist working in watercolor, gouache, lithography, and engraving.
Hill's work focussed primarily upon natural subjects including landscapes, still lifes, and ornithological and zoological subjects. In the 1850s, influenced by John Ruskin and Hill's association with American followers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, his attention turned from technical illustration toward still life and landscape.
Hill was the son of British aquatint engraver John Hill. He emigrated with his parents from London to the United States in 1819, initially living in Philadelphia. In 1822 the family moved to New York, where Hill apprenticed in aquatint engraving in his father's shop.
In 1838 Hill married Catherine Smith - their children included the astronomer George William Hill and the painter John Henry Hill.
In watercolor and aquatint engravings, Hill employed a stipple technique, building up planes of softly gradated colors made of tiny brushstrokes–a process commonly seen in painted miniatures. Applied to a larger scale on canvas the result was a form of objective real...
TRAUTMAN, VALENTIN STAFFANSSON.
Född o. 1580 i Tyskland, död 1629 i Stockholm (Tyska förs.), där specif. verifikationer saknas 1618-35.
Tecknare, kopparstickare och träsnidare. Inkom till Sverige troligen 1616 och erhöll 1617 17/2 fullmakt att bo i landet utan 'borgerlig tunga och besvär'. Bosatt i Stockholms norra förstad 1621 enligt stadens tänkebok s. å. 23/11. Uppbar 1624 16 dlr smt för gravering å en prinsessas likkista. 1627 utstack han vapen och namn på prinsessan Agnes’ av Holstein-Gottorp kista i Riddarholmskyrkan för 40 dlr smt. Sistn. år 9/1 var »Fallenteen kåpparstijkare … stämbd at svara Adam Rickertz [då] Dee Laskepelles [De la Chapelle] löitnant, war icke till wedermåls» (Norra förstadens tänkeb.). I boskapsräkningen 1628 skattade »Pfallentijn kapperstik» i norra förstadens östra kvarter för ett »gammalt svijn». Kungen var synbarligen vid T:s frånfälle orolig för kvarlåtenskapen enligt Riks. reg. 1629 19/12: »Gustaff Adolph etc. Wår gunst etc. Effter dhet Wij förnumne at kopparstickaren på Norremalm är dödh och hoos honom äre allehanda kopparplåtar som medh stoor kostnadt utstukne äre, derföre på dhet dhe icke måge förkomma, sk...
Bland arbeten.
A BURE, Orbis Arctoi, imprimisque amplissimi regni Sueciae tabula, jämte porträttmedaljonger av Gustav II Adolf och Maria Eleonora 1626, kpst,
Hultmark, 1944.
1754-1825.
L'Enfant was born in Paris where he trained to be an architect. He came to America in 1777, and served George Washington as an engineer during the Revolutionary War. In 1791 President Washington asked L'Enfant to design the new capitol city in the District of Columbia. L'Enfant designed a city similar in layout to the then French capitol city of Versailles. The Capitol in Washington sits in a position similar to that of the palace in Versailles, the White House (originally called the President's House) in the position of Grand Trianon, and the Mall is like the Parc. The Commissioners of the City of Washington wanted to have a printed copy of the plan when they began to sell building lots. L'Enfant irritated them by working slowly and releasing only sketchy plans . On instruction from President Washington, Thomas Jefferson on February 27, 1792 wrote a letter to L'Enfant dismissing him as city planner. L'Enfant died penniless and was buried on a friend's estate. In 1909 his remains were moved to Arlington Natio...
Washington Map Society. Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Pierre Charles L'Enfant'.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
'...Regnum Poloniae et Magnum Ducatum Lithuaniae...' - Lotter ca 1770.
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.)
