KARTOGRAFI OCH BILDLORE

SURHON[IUS] [SURHONIO, SURCHON-], JEAN and JACQUES.

Cartographers, goldsmiths and engravers, b. Mons.

Bland arbeten.
Hainault 1548 (used by Ortelius 1579.
Hondius 1633).
Luxembourg 1551.
Namur 1553.
Artois 1554.
Picardy 1557 (used by Ortelius 1559).
Vermandois 1577 (used by Blaeu 1631).

Tooley.

TARDIEU, AMBROISE.

1788-1841.
Kartograf och gravör verksam för franska Depot de la Marine. Producerade flera atlaser, bland annat över en av Napoleons kampanjer. Han gjorde även den stora Atlas Hydrographique vilken publicerades i Paris 1822.

Bland arbeten.
Atlas Hydrographique.

BL.

BORVEN, MAURICE.

Gravör. Arbetade åt Robert Sayer.


Bland arbeten.
Sayer & Bennett's General Atlas 1757-94.

Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.

Ramslök, Allium ursinum - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

Porträtt på Gerard Mercator och Jodocus Hondius.

"Striking image showing Mercator and Hondius in their idealized workshop.

This famous portrait of two of the most important mapmakers during the Golden Age of Dutch cartography was engraved by Coletta Hondius, as a tribute to her late husband, shortly after his death. Gerard Mercator is shown with his successor, Jodocus Hondius, seated at a table surrounded by the implements of their trade. The fine portrait is set within an elaborate strapwork framework that includes a wall map of Europe.

Gerard Mercator is renowned as the cartographer who created a world map representing new projections of sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines—an innovation which, to this day, enhances the simplicity and safety of navigation. In his own day, Mercator was the world's most famous geographer. He created a number of wall maps early in his career, as well as one of the earliest modern world Atlases in 1595. Although this was the first appearance of the word Atlas in a geographical context, Mercator used it as a neologism for a treatise on the creation, history and description of the universe, not simply a collection of maps. He chose the word as a commemoration of King Atlas of Mauretania, whom he considered to be the first great geographer.

Jodocus Hondius was a Dutch engraver and cartographer. He is best known for his early maps of the New World and Europe and for continuing publication of Gerard Mercator's World Atlas. He also helped establish Amsterdam as the center of cartography in Europe in the 17th century. In England, Hondius publicized the work of Francis Drake, who had made a circumnavigation of the world in the late 1570s. In 1604, he purchased the plates of Gerard Mercator's Atlas from Mercator's grandson and continued publication of the Atlas, adding his own maps over the next several decades. Hondius later published a pocket version Atlas Minor."

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.