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Totius Asiae Nova e Exacta Tabula...
| Reference: | S48894 |
| Author | Giovanni Giacomo DE ROSSI |
| Year: | 1670 ca. |
| Zone: | Asia |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 465 x 585 mm |
€2,000.00
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| Reference: | S48894 |
| Author | Giovanni Giacomo DE ROSSI |
| Year: | 1670 ca. |
| Zone: | Asia |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 465 x 585 mm |
€2,000.00
Description
Left sheet of the very rare wall map of Asia published in Rome by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi with the title Totius Asiae Nova et Exacta Tabula ex Optimis Tum Geographorum Tum Aliorum Scriptis Collecta et ad Hoggirum Regnorum Principatuum et Maiorum Partium Distinctionem Accomodata Per Gulielmu Blaeuw. . . M D C LXX.
It depicts the western part of the continent up to the coasts of Ceylon, and includes all of the Middle East and eastern Africa.
The map, first published in 1670, is known only through two institutional copies:
- a first state, with the date 1670, is preserved in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France [GE C-7991 (1-2)].
- a second state, which bears the correct date as 1679, is preserved in the Vatican Library [Stampe.Geogr.I.376].
This fascinating, finely engraved map is a two-sheet reduction of Willem Blaeu's 1608 wall map of Africa. It is part of a series of four continental maps published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi. The title acknowledges Willem Blaeu as the source for this map, and the map generally follows Blaeu's wall map. The hydrography is a faithful copy of Blaeu's. There are areas on the map where more recent information is presented. The cartographic elements on the map are taken from Cornelis Danckerts's 1647 map, even using Danckerts's decorative cartouche, albeit without text, which copies the figures in reverse. Unlike Danckerts's map, the version derived by De Rossi acknowledges Blaeu's wall map as the model for the geography.
Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi (1627-1691) belonged to a family of printers and publishers, founded by his father Giuseppe. Working from the " Insegna di Parigi alla Pace" in Rome, De Rossi produced several separate maps and atlases over a considerable period of time. In addition to this map and a reproduction of Blaeu's large wall map of 1666, De Rossi published an atlas in 1677, the Mercurio Geografico, based on the maps of Guillaume Sanson.
According to Schilder (1996: 202), the two copper plates for this map were engraved well before 1670 by Daniel Vidman, perhaps as early as 1653. Vidman was commissioned by De Rossi's brother, Giovanni Domenico, to engrave smaller versions of Blaeu's 1608 wall maps of the continents, which were ultimately produced by 1670.
In Lorenzo Filippo de Rossi's index of prints (1735), the work is listed on p. 9 as “Nuova, ed esatta tavola dell’Asia colle sue sposizioni del Blau intagliata a bulino in due fogli imperiali”. The print, belonging to the group “Altre carte geografiche le quali si vendono separate”, was sold for 40 Baiocchi.
Etching, in very good condition.
Bibliografia
Cfr. Burden (1996): pp. 517-518, n. 408; Consagra (1993): pp. 335-336; Grelle Iusco (1996): p. 156, n. 7; Schilder (1996): pp. 199-208, n. 3.
Giovanni Giacomo DE ROSSI (Roma 1627 - 1691)
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Towards the end of the sixteenth century began the editorial activity of Antonio De Rossi, who with his sons Giuseppe the Elder and Giulio, founded the printing house that, over the next two centuries and through four generations, held the monopoly of chalcographic production in the city. The workshop had the sign “De Rossi alla Pace”. The history of the De Rossi family is characterized by internal disputes and contrasts that lead to the opening of individual printing houses in competition with each other. Giulio De Rossi's sons, Giuseppe the Younger and Giovanni Battista, nephews of Giuseppe De Rossi the Elder, had founded in 1628 their own workshop in the vicinity - at the corner of Via di Parione and Via della Pace near the church of S. Biagio della Fossa - but in 1635 Giovanni Battista in turn separated from his brother and opened a workshop in Piazza Navona, the third of the family. In 1644, after the death of Giuseppe the Younger, his brother Giovanni Battista became the most direct competitor of his uncle's workshop, the De Rossi alla Pace, now run by his widow along with their children who were then partly still minors [Sons of Giuseppe De Rossi the Elder (1560-1639) and Flaminia Fabio were Giovanni Domenico (1619-1653) Girolamo (born in 1621), Giovanni Giacomo (1627-1691) and Filippo (1631-1656)]. In 1648 Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, son of Giuseppe, started his own activity in a workshop located “alla Pace”, with the contribution of about 800 plates inherited from his father, whose fund was divided among the four sons. At the death of his elder brother Giovanni Domenico (1653) the part of plates inherited from him was recovered by Giovanni Giacomo, who also took possession of many works of a geographical nature published by his brother. The corpus of works recovered by Giovanni Giacomo consisted of a collection that spanned a chronological span of more than a century, including part of the plates of Salamanca and Lafreri, the workshops of Adamo Scultori, Villamena, Maggi, Carenzano and many others. For the whole course of the century Giovanni Giacomo and his adopted son Domenico (1647-1729) were the point of reference of the Roman publishing industry and increased the chalcographic production of local and artistic character. In addition, in fact, to the works of Giovan Battista Falda we find in the list the engraving matrixes of painters-engravers such as Guido Reni, Giovan Benedetto Castiglione, Giovanni Andrea Podestà and Pietro Testa just to mention the main artists who relied on the De Rossi. When Domenico died in 1729, the printing house was inherited by his son Lorenzo Filippo, who immediately put it up for sale. Pope Clement XII forbade its sale abroad and ordered its appraisal with the intention of purchase by the Apostolic Chamber: the printing house was sold in March 1738 and formed the fund of the newly founded Calcografia Camerale. This act of sale is the document that witnesses the end of the De Rossi printing house, one of the most important European printing houses.
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Giovanni Giacomo DE ROSSI (Roma 1627 - 1691)
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Towards the end of the sixteenth century began the editorial activity of Antonio De Rossi, who with his sons Giuseppe the Elder and Giulio, founded the printing house that, over the next two centuries and through four generations, held the monopoly of chalcographic production in the city. The workshop had the sign “De Rossi alla Pace”. The history of the De Rossi family is characterized by internal disputes and contrasts that lead to the opening of individual printing houses in competition with each other. Giulio De Rossi's sons, Giuseppe the Younger and Giovanni Battista, nephews of Giuseppe De Rossi the Elder, had founded in 1628 their own workshop in the vicinity - at the corner of Via di Parione and Via della Pace near the church of S. Biagio della Fossa - but in 1635 Giovanni Battista in turn separated from his brother and opened a workshop in Piazza Navona, the third of the family. In 1644, after the death of Giuseppe the Younger, his brother Giovanni Battista became the most direct competitor of his uncle's workshop, the De Rossi alla Pace, now run by his widow along with their children who were then partly still minors [Sons of Giuseppe De Rossi the Elder (1560-1639) and Flaminia Fabio were Giovanni Domenico (1619-1653) Girolamo (born in 1621), Giovanni Giacomo (1627-1691) and Filippo (1631-1656)]. In 1648 Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, son of Giuseppe, started his own activity in a workshop located “alla Pace”, with the contribution of about 800 plates inherited from his father, whose fund was divided among the four sons. At the death of his elder brother Giovanni Domenico (1653) the part of plates inherited from him was recovered by Giovanni Giacomo, who also took possession of many works of a geographical nature published by his brother. The corpus of works recovered by Giovanni Giacomo consisted of a collection that spanned a chronological span of more than a century, including part of the plates of Salamanca and Lafreri, the workshops of Adamo Scultori, Villamena, Maggi, Carenzano and many others. For the whole course of the century Giovanni Giacomo and his adopted son Domenico (1647-1729) were the point of reference of the Roman publishing industry and increased the chalcographic production of local and artistic character. In addition, in fact, to the works of Giovan Battista Falda we find in the list the engraving matrixes of painters-engravers such as Guido Reni, Giovan Benedetto Castiglione, Giovanni Andrea Podestà and Pietro Testa just to mention the main artists who relied on the De Rossi. When Domenico died in 1729, the printing house was inherited by his son Lorenzo Filippo, who immediately put it up for sale. Pope Clement XII forbade its sale abroad and ordered its appraisal with the intention of purchase by the Apostolic Chamber: the printing house was sold in March 1738 and formed the fund of the newly founded Calcografia Camerale. This act of sale is the document that witnesses the end of the De Rossi printing house, one of the most important European printing houses.
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