Ca. 1664-1721.
Holländsk bokhandlare, son till Hendrick Doncker (se denne).
1770-1823.
Vallance arrived in Philadelphia from Glasgow Scotland early in 1791. He quickly established his reputation as one of the best engravers in the city. During this period he developed a friendship with James Thackara. In 1791 Vallance married Elizabeth Trenchard, a niece of Thackara's wife Hannah. A partnership with Thackara was established. He engraved banknotes and documents. In addition he was one of the founders, in 1774, of the Association of Artists in America. His wife Elizabeth died in 1798 at the age of 28. Four years later he married again to Margaret Pratt.
Washington Map Society.
Död 1794.
Engelsk matematiker och astronom. Född i Crediton, Devonshire, död i London. Innan han fyllde 20 år bedrev han privatundervisning i skrivning, räkning och navigation i sin födelsestad. 1751 slog han sig ner i London och även där försörjde han sig på att undervisa, dels i skolor, dels privat. 1757 skapade han en ny slags jordglob 'in plano', bestående av 4 stereografiska kartor. Till dessa gav han även ut en bruksanvisning. Han utvecklade ett rikt författarskap som spände över många fält, speciellt astronomi, matematik och navigation. Av hans böcker kan nämnas 'A new and general Introduction to practical Astronomy, with its Application to Geography... Topograhpy, etc.' (1775). 1774 gav han ut en 'New Atlas of the mundane System' med 62 vackert graverade kartor. Denna atlas kom senare i flera nyutgåvor.
Bland arbeten.
A new and general Introduction to practical Astronomy, with its Application to Geography... Topograhpy, etc.
New Atlas of the mundane System.
Dict. nat. biogr.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Nassovia Principatus. - N. Visscher, andra halvan av 1600-talet.
Grasset de Sainte-Sauveur, Jaques
Biografiska uppgifter:Montreal 1757 - Paris 1810.
A late eighteenth and early nineteenth century French (Canadian) artist, writer and diplomat, Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur left Montreal in 1764 and began his studies with the Jesuits of Sainte-Barbe, in Paris. His first published book, Costumes civils de tous les peoples connus, dates from 1784. It deals with his lifelong passion of chronicling the peoples of other lands, particularly in remote areas. His other works include, Tableaux cosmographiques de l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique (1787), L'Antique Rome (1795), Encyclopedie des voyages (1796), and Voyage picturesque dans les autres parties du monde (1806). Groenlandais (Native of Greenland) was engraved by Labrousse for the c. 1797 publication, Costumes de different pays. Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur both designed the engravings and wrote the text for all of these publications. Besides being an artist and writer Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur also led an active diplomatic career. He served as France's vice-consul in Hungary and elsewhere. Today the art of Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur may be found in the following collections; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the National Library of Australia, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the New York Public Library.
Bland arbeten:
Costumes civils de tous les peoples connus (1784), Tableaux cosmographiques de l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique (1787), L'Antique Rome (1795), Encyclopedie des voyages (1796), Voyage picturesque dans les autres parties du monde (1806), Costumes de different pays (c. 1797).
