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LAMB, FRANCIS


Engelsk kopparstickare i slutet av 1600-talet. Han graverade kartor för atlaser och geografiska verk, av vilka kan nämnas J. Sellers 'Atlas maritimus', ett flertal utgåvor från ca. 1670, J. Speeds 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain' (1676), Richard Blomes 'Cosmography' (1682 och W. Pettys 'A geographical Description of ye Kingdom of Ireland' (1689). Den sistnämnda var han även, tillsammans med J. Seller (se denne), förläggare för.

Bland arbeten.
Atlas maritimus.
The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain.
Cosmography.
A geographical Description of ye Kingdom of Ireland.


Ph. - Tooley.

Stacpoole, Frederick.

(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).

THERSNER, THORA JOHANNA ULRIKA.


I bredd med våra författarinnor, men på en annan väg producerande, utmärker sig demoiselle Thersner. Ett allmänt kändt och värderadt arbete, 'Svecia Antiqva et Hodierna', utgafs i förra århundradet af grefve Dahlberg, ett dyrbart arbete, som näppeligen i vår tid skulle kunna utgifvas i koppartryck, ehuru det blifvit fortsatt lithografiskt. Det var, redan i början af innevarande århundrade, i det afseendet föråldradt, att efter lång mellankommen tid de teckningar, arbetet gifvit, icke mera svarade mot det nuvarande utseendet, äfvensom en mängd andra märkvärdiga ställen funnos, de der icke i Dahlbergs arbete voro intagna. Konung Carl XIII ansåg att ett nytt arbete, i planen likt det gamla, borde utgifvas, och uppmanade dertill kaptenen (sedermera öfverstelöjtnanten) Ulrik Thersner, som inom geniekorpsen gjort sig känd såsom tecknare. Man anser sig icke behöfva förbigå det denne man väl också gjort sig för öfrigt utmärkt. Såsom kommenderad att vid ingenjörsarbetena biträda general Boje under belägringen för den ...
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Fordna och närvarande Sverige


Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor


Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734


Märke, Sium latifolium - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

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Molyneux, Emery.

Biografiska uppgifter:Död i juni 1598.
Emery Molyneux was an English Elizabethan maker of globes, mathematical instruments and ordnance. His terrestrial and celestial globes, first published in 1592, were the first to be made in England and the first to be made by an Englishman.
Molyneux was known as a mathematician and maker of mathematical instruments such as compasses and hourglasses. He became acquainted with many prominent men of the day, including the writer Richard Hakluyt and the mathematicians Robert Hues and Edward Wright. He also knew the explorers Thomas Cavendish, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh and John Davis. Davis probably introduced Molyneux to his own patron, the London merchant William Sanderson, who largely financed the construction of the globes. When completed, the globes were presented to Elizabeth I. Larger globes were acquired by royalty, noblemen and academic institutions, while smaller ones were purchased as practical navigation aids for sailors and students. The globes were the first to be made in such a way that they were unaffected by the humidity at sea, and they came into general use on ships.
Molyneux emigrated to Amsterdam with his wife in 1596 or 1597. He succeeded in interesting the States-General, the parliament of the United Provinces, in a cannon he had invented, but he died suddenly in June 1598, apparently in poverty. The globe-making industry in England died with him.
Only six of his globes are believed still to be in existence. Three are in England, of which one pair consisting of a terrestrial and a celestial globe is owned by Middle Temple and displayed in its library, while a terrestrial globe is at Petworth House in Petworth, West Sussex.

Molyneux accompanied Francis Drake on his 1577–1580 circumnavigation of the world; as Ubaldini reported, '[h]e himself has been in those seas and on those coasts in the service of the same Drake'. A legend in Latin on the terrestrial globe, explaining why Molyneux had left out the polar lands and corrected the distance across the Atlantic Ocean between The Lizard and Cape Race in Newfoundland, concluded:
'Quod equide[m] effeci tu[m] ex meis navigationibus primo, tum deinceps ex felici illa sub clariss. Fran. Drako ad Indos Occident, expeditione, in qua non modo optimas quasqu[e] alioru[m] descriptiones, sed quidquid mea quantulacu[m]que, vel scie[n]ta vel experientia ad integru[m] hoc qui[n]quen[n]io pr[a]estare potuit, ad hujus operis perfectione[m] co[m]paravi ...' [I have been able to do this both in the first place from my own voyages and secondly from that successful expedition to the West Indies under the most illustrious Francis Drake: in which expedition I have put together not only all the best delineations of others, but everything my own humble knowledge or experience has been able to furnish in the last five years to the perfecting of this work.]
Bland arbeten:
'The Globes Celestial and Terrestrial Set Forth in Plano'

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