SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

KLINT, GUSTAF af.

1771-1840.
Före adlandet Klint, sjöofficer, kartograf, ämbetsman, f. 31 maj 1771 i Karlskrona, d. 30 april 1840 i Stockholm. Son till Erik af Klint. - K. visade tidigt en okuvlig lust för sjömanslivet. Vid åtta års ålder började han rita sjökort, och tolv år gammal uppgjorde han ett eget signalsystem för kadetternas övningar med en båteskader. År 1781 blev han kadett och 1782 fänrik; officersexamen avlade han 1787. Därefter blev han bitr. lärare och senare informationsofficer vid kadettskolan i Karlskrona; efter dess införlivande med Krigsakad. på Karlberg 1792 fortsatte han där i samma tjänst i femton år. Under det ryska kriget 1788-90 tjänstgjorde K. mestadels på faderns fartyg Gustaf III och utförde dessutom värdefulla lodningar och farledsundersökningar i skärgården. I sjöslaget vid Ölands s. udde 1789 tjänstgjorde K. ombord på det från ryssarna vid Hogland tagna linjeskeppet Vladislaff. Trots sin ungdom gjorde sig K. under kriget känd för sitt goda omdöme; utbrytningen från Viborgska viken 1790 verkställdes sålunda...

Svenska män och kvinnor, band IV. Bonniers 1948.Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.

Dankerts, Cornelis the elder.

1603-56
JUSTUS DANKERTS (son) 1635-1701
The Dankerts family, of whom the above were the most important, was very large and ramifying having had a lot of members who were active in engraving on an artistic level. In this short view, however, we are dealing mainly with those who took part in the atlas production.
The family’s roots can be traced back to Cornelis Danckerts (1536-1595), a carpenter in Amsterdam. From his marriage with Lijsbet Cornelisdr two sons are known: Cornelis Danckerts de Rij (1561-1634) and Danckert Cornelisz (ca. 1580-1625). Cornelis and his descendants called themselves Danckerts de Rij. Danckerts Cornelisz who is at the root of the line we are now interested in was first a skipper then a stone merchant. He married Lijstbeth Jansdr, shortly after the turn of the century. Several members of his branch were well-known engravers-etchers, mapmakers and printsellers (Keuning, 1955). Danckert Cornelisz had two sons: Cornelis Danckerts (1603-1656) and Dancker Danckerts (1614-?).
Cornelis the elder brother established himself as...

BILLMARK, CARL JOHAN

1804-1870
Billmark. Karl Johan, tecknare, litograf, f. 28 jan. 1804 i Stockholm, blef - efter att hafva tillbragt några år såsom handelsbiträde - 1822 lärjunge hos kopparstickaren K. D. Forssell, i hvilkens bekanta verk 'Ett år i Sverige' han utförde två tredjedelar af planscherna. 1827 lämnade han Forssells ateljé, öfvergaf gravyren för litografien, och sedan han i Etyder för landskapstecknare (1828-30) och Skotska vyer gifvit lefvande prof på sin förmåga.i den nyvalda konstgrenen, lämnade han Sverige 1833 och var därefter bosatt i Paris till sin död, i nov. 1870. Därifrån företog han flera resor till Tyskland, Schweiz, Italien och hemlandet. I Paris utgaf han sina arbeten, bl. a. Stockholms pittoreska omgifningar: Djurgården; Pittoresk resetur från Stockholm till Neapel (1841-51); Sverige. Akvarell-litografi och tontryck (1853-66, vyer och interiörer från Stockholm, Uppsala, Sigtuna, Gripsholm och Skokloster); Panorama öfver Stockholm från Skeppsholmskyrkans kupol, och det för konung Karl XV:s räkning utförda praktve...
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Ett år i Sverige
Etyder för landskapstecknare 1828-30
Skotska vyer
Stockholms pittoreska omgifningar: Djurgården
Pittoresk resetur från Stockholm till Neapel (1841-51)
Sverige. Akvarell-litografi och tontryck (1853-66, vyer och interiörer från Stockholm, Uppsala, Sigtuna, Gripsholm och Skokloster)
Panorama öfver Stockholm från Skeppsholmskyrkans kupol
Le château royal d'Ulriksdal (1871)

(Nordisk Familjebok, Ugglan, Band 3 spalt 399.)

Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.

Fackelros, Lythrum salicaria - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

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.]
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'The Globes Celestial and Terrestrial Set Forth in Plano'

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