(b 1813; d London, 19 Dec 1907).
English engraver. He was educated in Ghent, Belgium, and later at the Royal Academy Schools, London, where he was awarded silver medals in 1839 and 1841. He worked in the mixed mezzotint style and exhibited 43 examples of his work at the Royal Academy between 1841 and 1893. Of Stacpoole’s many plates, perhaps the best-known are those after William Holman Hunt’s Shadow of Death (1873; Manchester, C.A.G.) and the battle subjects of Lady Butler. Stacpoole began work early in 1874 on the engraving of Shadow of Death . The original picture had been bought by Thos Agnew & Sons and was exhibited so widely that, on publication of the engravings in 1877, the sale of proofs alone realized more than £20,000. By January 1879 Stacpoole had received a total of £3560 from the Fine Art Society for his plates after Lady Butler’s Roll Call (1874; British Royal Col.; declared for publication in 1874), Quatre Bras (1875; Melbourne, N.G. Victoria) and Balaclava (1876; Manchester, C.A.G.; both declared in 1876).
Bland arbeten.
Shadow of Death (1873; Manchester, C.A.G.), Lady Butler’s Roll Call (1874; British Royal Col.; declared for publication in 1874), Quatre Bras (1875; Melbourne, N.G. Victoria) and Balaclava (1876; Manchester, C.A.G.; both declared in 1876).
Flemish cartographer.
Brabant (Sylvaducis) used by Blaeu 1634 and later.
Tooley.
1844-1930. Född och död i Oslo.
Norsk officer och kartograf. Han var från 1868 knuten till 'Norges Geografiske Opmåling'. 1897 blev han överste och samma år medlem av den norsk-ryska gränskommissionen. Från 1900 var han chef för 'Norges Geografiska Opmåling'. Blev 1906 utnämnd till generalmajor och chef för 'Bergenske Brigade'. - Nissens första karta, 'Cammermeyers Reisekart över det sydlige Norge' kom 1881 och följdes året därpå av en liknande karta över det nordligaste delarna av Norge. Båda utkom senare i många utgåvor. 1905 gav han på Aschehougs förlag ut både en karta över de sydliga delarna av Norge i 4 blad och ett över norra Norge. Båda dessa blev tryckta på nytt 1914. Efter sitt avsked som officer 1912 kunde Nissen hänge sig helt åt sina geografiska och kartografiska intressen. 1914 utgav han en Norgebeskrivning, 'Faedrelandet' och 1921 sin stora ekonomiska atlas över Norge. Under ett antal år var han förman i 'Det norske Geografiske Selskap' och 1901 blev han medlem av den internationella lantmätningen. Som militär verkade han und...
Bland arbeten.
Cammermeyers Reisekart över det sydlige Norge.
Faedrelandet.
N. biogr. leks.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Karta öfver Norra delen af Nord Sjön. - G. af Klint 1805.
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.)
