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Artists/Mapmakers

Antique maps and prints were usually produced by a collaboration of individuals. A single map, for instance, could have been surveyed, drawn, and engraved by three different people, for an atlas edited by a fourth, published by a fifth - then perhaps reissued by a sixth,or adapted and reissued by others.

As with antique prints, the custom of assigning early maps to a particular person varies. Sometimes this depended on the prominence of the style of the presentation of a publication. For instance, atlases published by Ortelius and Blaeu, and the later maps published by Tallis, are of a particular style and are usually attributed to these mapping houses rather than to the cartographer or engraver whose name might appear on the map itself.

Chronological summary of map engravers, publishers, cartographers & their work:

- Claudius PTOLEMAEUS (AD87 - AD150)
- Francesco ROSSELLI (1445-1515)
- Bartolommeo Dalli SONETTI (ZAMBERTI) (fl. 1477-1485)
- Juan de la COSA (circa 1460-1510)
- Benedetto BORDONE (circa 1460-1539)
- Martin WALDSEEMULLER (circa 1470-1518)
- Petrus APIANUS (1495-1552)
- Sebastian MUNSTER (1489-1552)
- Oronce FINE (1494-1555)
- Giacomo (Jacopo) GASTALDI (1500-1565)
- Antoine LAFRERI (1512-1577)
- Gerard MERCATOR (1512-1594)
- Battista AGNESE (1527 - 1564)
- Gerard de JODE (1509-1591)
- Diogo HOMEN (fl.1530-1576)
- Abraham ORTELIUS (1528-1598)
- Lucas Janszoon WAGHENAER (1534-1598)
- Christopher SAXTON (circa 1542-1606)
- John SPEED (1552-1629)
- Edward WRIGHT (1558-1615)
- Willem BARENTSZ (circa 1560-1597)
- Jodocus HONDIUS (1563-1612)
- Petrus BERTIUS (1565-1629)
- Pieter van den KEERE (1571-circa 1646)
- Cornelis WYTFLIET (fl. 1597)
- Willem Janszoon BLAEU (1571-1638)
- Sir Robert DUDLEY (1573-1649)
- William KIP (fl.1598-1635)
- William HOLE (fl. 1607-1646)
- Claes Jansz VISSCHER (1587-1612)
- Johannes JANSSONIUS (1588-1664)
- Matthaus MERIAN (1593-1650)
- Abraham GOOS (fl. 1614-1643)
- John OGILBY (1600-1676)
- Nicolas SANSON (father) (1600-1667)
- Cornelis DANCKERTS (1603-1656)
- Pierre DU VAL (circa 1619-1683)
- Melchisedech THEVENOT (1620-1692)
- Hendrick DONCKER (circa 1626-1699)
- Jean Dominique CASSINI (1625-1712)
- Giovanni Maria CASSINI
- Frederick de WIT (1630-1706)
- Alain-Manesson MALLET (1630 - 1706) - coincidentally!
- Alexis Hubert JAILLOT (circa 1632-1712)
- Nicolas de FER (1646-1720)
- Gerard VALCK (circa 1651-1726)
- John SELLER (fl. 1660-1697)
- Robert MORDEN (fl. 1668-1703)
- Claude DELISLE (father) (1644-1720)
- Herman MOLL (fl. 1654-1732)
- Vincenzo Maria CORONELLI (1650-1718)
- Johannes van KEULEN (1654-1711)
- Pieter van der AA (1657-1753)
- Pieter SCHENK (1660-circa 1718)
- Pieter MORTIER (1661-1711)
- Joachim OTTENS (1663-1719)
- Philippe BUACHE (1700-1773)
- John SENEX (fl.1700-1740)
- Johann Baptist HOMANN (circa 1663-1724)
- Georg Matthaus SEUTTER (the Older) (1678-1756)
- Edward WELLS (fl. 1700)
- Henri Abraham CHATELAIN (1684-1743)
- Gilles Robert de VAUGONDY (1688-1766)
- John MITCHELL (1711-1768)
- Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'ANVILLE (1697-1782)
- Jacques Nicolas BELLIN (1703-1772)
- Emanuel BOWEN (fl.1714-1767)
- Thomas JEFFERYS (circa 1695-1771)
- Thomas KITCHEN (1718-1784)
- William FADEN (1750-1836)
- Rigobert BONNE (1727 - 1794)
- Captain James COOK, British Navigator and Explorer. (1729 - 1779)
- Antonio ZATTA (fl. 1737-1797)
- Robert (Jean?) JANVIER (fl. 1746-1776)
- John CARY (circa 1754-1835)
- Robert LAURIE (circa 1755-1836)
- John William NORIE (1772-1843)
- Louis Claude Desaules de FREYCINET (1779-1842)
- Pierre LAPIE (1777-1851)
- Thomas MOULE (1784-1851)
- James WYLD (the elder) (1790-1836)
- Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'URVILLE (1790-1842)
- Joseph Hutchins COLTON (1800-1893)
- Victor LEVASSEUR (fl. 1838-1854)