28 juni 1618-2 februari 1682.
Jean le Pautre (June 28, 1618 – February 2, 1682) was a French designer and engraver. Le Pautre was an apprentice to a carpenter and builder. In addition to learning mechanical and constructive work, he developed considerable skill with the pencil. His designs, innumerable in quantity and exuberant in content, consisted mainly of ceilings, friezes, chimney-pieces, doorways and mural decorations. He also devised fire-dogs, sideboards, cabinets, console tables, mirrors and other pieces of furniture.
Jean Le Pautre, Sight of the Basin of Latone in the Gardens of Versailles, 1678
Le Pautre was long employed at the Gobelins manufactory. His work is often very flamboyant and elaborate. He frequently used amorini and swags, arabesques and cartouches in his work. His chimney-pieces, in contrast, were often simple and elegant. His engraved plates, nearly 1,500 in number, are almost entirely original and include a portrait of himself. He made many designs for Andre Charles Boulle.
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Bland arbeten.
Karl X Gustafs historia.
Montanus, Petrus. [Pieter van den Berg]
ft. 1606.
A Dutch geographer, active in Amsterdam, who worked in association with his brother-in-law, J odocus Hondius, for whom he prepared the text of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas (1606 and later editions). The map noted below, attributed to Montanus, is the first separately printed one of Maryland; known as 'Lord Baltimore's Map' it was published by him to attract settlers to the colony.
PHILIPPE DE PRETOT, ÉTIENNE-ANDRÉ.
Ca. 1708-87. Född i London, död i Brighton.
Engelsk bokhandlare och förläggare. 1788 öppnade han i Leicester en bok- och pappershandel som snart blev ett centrum för revolutionär litteratur. Vid sidan om detta startade han 1792 en tidskrift, 'Leicester Herald', som han själv redigerade. 1795 flyttade han sin verksamhet till London och grundade där tidskriften 'Monthly Magazine' och flera andra skrifter. Hans förlagsverksamhet omfattade särskilt klassisk litteratur samt geografiska och naturvetenskapliga verk. 1807 blev han vald till sheriff av London.
Bland arbeten.
Leicester Herald.
Monthly Magazine.
Dict. nat. biogr.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
'Öregrunds skärgård. Öregrund - Simpnäsklubb.' - Stockholm 1936.
