John Ogilby
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Scottish academic, translator, theatrical impresario and cartographer (1600-1676) | |||||
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Date of birth | 17 November 1600 Dundee | ||||
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Date of death | 4 September 1676 Greater London, London | ||||
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Deutsch: John Ogilby (1600–1676) war ein Tanzmeister, Theaterdirektor, Übersetzer, Poet, Kartograph, Buchhändler und Verleger.
English: John Ogilby (1600–1676) was a dance master, director of plays, translator, poet, cartagropher, bookseller and publisher.
Nederlands: John Ogilby (1600–1676) was een Brits vertaler, schrijver, cartograaf, boekhandelaar en uitgever.
Life
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Portrait of John Ogilby from a 1660 Edition of Homer's The Iliad
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Portrait of John Ogilby by Sir Peter Lely
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Ogilby, engraving by William Camden Edwards, 1820, after a drawing by J. Thurston
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Horoscope of John Ogilby taken by Elias Ashmole
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Ogilby presenting his Subcription List for Britannia to the King and Queen. From Morgan’s map of London, 1682
Prints from works published by Ogilby
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First page of Ogilby’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneis (1654).
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Title page of Ogilby’s The Entertainment of … Charles II (second edition, 1662)
Illustrations by Wenceslaus Hollar
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Wenceslaus Hollar, Of the Frogs Desiring a King (1665). Etching from The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse. Printed by Thomas Roycroft for John Ogilby in London.
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Wenceslaus Hollar, Of the Court Mouse, and Country Mouse (1665). Etching from The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse. Printed by Thomas Roycroft for John Ogilby in London.
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Wenceslaus Hollar, The swan and the stork, etching from Aesopicks
Britannia
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Frontispiece of Ogilby's Britannia (1675). Drawn by Francis Barlow, engraved by Wenzel Hollar.
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The Road From LONDON to the LANDS END (1675)
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The Continuation of the Road from LONDON to Holyhead. Comencing at the City of CHESTER … (1675)
Other
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Nova Terrae-Mariae tabula (1671)