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Details of this illustrator << Previous Next >> Last Name | Delisle | Given Name | Guillaume | alt. Names | G. D. ; G. de l'Isle ; | Marriage | | Children | | Year born | 1675 in Paris | Year died | 1726 | Place of death | Paris | Father's occupation | Claude Delisle (1644-1720), who later remarried Charlotte Millet de la Croyère after his first wife died following childbirth. | Relatives | Marie Malaine (mother) ; Louis de L'Isle de la Croyére (1690-1741) | Education | studied law; student of the astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini ; G.D. later also taught history and geography. | Country of Activity | France | Worked for | Carte de la Nouvelle-France et des Pays Voisins (1696) ; L'Allemagne, dressé sur les observations de Tycho Brahe, de Kelper de Snellius, de celles des Messieurs de l'Académie des Science, sur Zeiller et autres auteurs anciens et modernes (Paris 1701) ; Carte de la Louisiane & Mississippi (1718) ; map set "Partie Septentrionale de la Souabe" and "Partie Mériodionale de la Souabe" (Paris c. 1704) ; | Patronage | G.D. educated duke Philippe d’Orléans who later became regent for the crown of France; Académie Royale des Sciences (member since 1702); | Collaborators | cartographer ->Nicolas Sanson ; Philippe Buache (1700-1773) ; Jean-Claude Dezauche (1745-1824) ; Nicolas Guérard (1648 ? -1719) ; engraver Liébaux fils (16xx-17xx) ; | Techniques | cartographical map-making ; geographical, cartographical, and topocgraphic copper engraving | Sample(s) | map gallery at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Delisle | Archival sources | see detailed reading list and various links in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Delisle | Published sources | R. V. Tooley: Guillaume Delisle, Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers (New York 1979: 353) ; Diefenbacher, Heinz & Bach-Damaskinos 2002: 83, 131, 152, 162, 164, 171 & 179 ; Grees 2002: 31 ; | other | French cartographer, known for his popular & accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas & Africa; e.g., Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France 1703; Carte d'Afrique dressée pour l'usage du Roy ; Carte d'Asie dressée pour l'usage du Roy sur les mémoires envoyée par le Czar. | viaf1 | 19841342 | viaf2 | | viaf3 | |
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