Le Isole Antille
| Reference: | s31500 |
| Author | Giovanni Maria CASSINI |
| Year: | 1798 |
| Zone: | The Antilles |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 497 x 365 mm |
€600.00
| Reference: | s31500 |
| Author | Giovanni Maria CASSINI |
| Year: | 1798 |
| Zone: | The Antilles |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 497 x 365 mm |
€600.00
Description
- FIRST EDITION -
The map shows Florida as an elongated archipelago of islands extending from Palm Beach and culminating in the Florida Keys. The West Indies are shown in detail from the Bahamas to Trinidad, although the projection causes a shortening from north to south. Many individual islands, cities, and features are named, including the Cayman Islands. The map shows dotted lines that probably represent shoals and other areas of shallow water. The fully colored cartouche appears to represent negotiations between Native Americans and Europeans.
The Italian painter and engraver, Giovanni Maria Cassini, produced this attractive map as part of his epic three-volume atlas, the Nuovo atlante geografico universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni. Roma, Calcografia Camerale, 1792-1801.
Cassini was geographer and cartographer, but he was also good at engraving architectural items and perspectives – he was one of the best disciples Giovanni Battista Piranesi had. Moreover, Cassini was one of the last artists to engrave spheres in the XVIII century and his globes were quite famous and widespread, and realized the most important Italian Atlas of the XVIII century; his maps always bear a cartouche, extremely rich in colours and details.
Cassini's Atlas was reprinted by the Calcografia Camerale in the first quarter of the 19th century, before 1839. Only the first edition examples - such as this one - are printed on contemporary laid paper and are hand-colored. Nineteenth-century editions are already on wove paper, lacking and uncolored.
Copperplate with fine original hand colour with addition on the cartouche, in very good condition.
Giovanni Maria CASSINI (1745 - 1824)
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Giovanni Maria Cassini was a fine Italian engraver, globe maker and painter. He did most of his work in Rome, and was not a member of the French Cassini family (a French Giovanni Maria Cassini was bor 120 years earlier). In 1792 Cassini published in Rome Vol. 1 of his atlas Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale. This contained two celestial hemispheres printed in 1790, which were labeled Planisfero Celeste Settentrionale and Meridionale. Similar to Zatta's hemispheric prints, in the corners were beautiful drawings of famous observatories: Collegio Romano, Bologna, Milan and Padua in the northern plate, and Paris, Cassel, Greenwich and Copenaghen in the southern plate. Vol. 2 of this atlas was published in 1797, Vol. 3 in 1801.
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Giovanni Maria CASSINI (1745 - 1824)
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Giovanni Maria Cassini was a fine Italian engraver, globe maker and painter. He did most of his work in Rome, and was not a member of the French Cassini family (a French Giovanni Maria Cassini was bor 120 years earlier). In 1792 Cassini published in Rome Vol. 1 of his atlas Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale. This contained two celestial hemispheres printed in 1790, which were labeled Planisfero Celeste Settentrionale and Meridionale. Similar to Zatta's hemispheric prints, in the corners were beautiful drawings of famous observatories: Collegio Romano, Bologna, Milan and Padua in the northern plate, and Paris, Cassel, Greenwich and Copenaghen in the southern plate. Vol. 2 of this atlas was published in 1797, Vol. 3 in 1801.
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