Le Isole Britanniche Antiche cioè la Britannia Maggiore o sia Albione e la Britannia Minore o sia Ivernia
| Reference: | s31524 |
| Author | Giovanni Maria CASSINI |
| Year: | 1799 |
| Zone: | British Isles |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 510 x 375 mm |
€225.00
| Reference: | s31524 |
| Author | Giovanni Maria CASSINI |
| Year: | 1799 |
| Zone: | British Isles |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 510 x 375 mm |
€225.00
Description
FIRST EDITION, CONTEMPORARY OUTLINE COLOUR -
Decorative map of the British Isles during the time of the Roman Empire, published by Cassini in 1799,
Britain is shown divided according to their ancient boundaries with the names of the tribes marked in each region, also shown are cities and towns called according to their old names.
Includes a decorative title cartouche depicting Neptune in a shell chariot urging on his team of hippocamps.
The Italian painter and engraver, Giovanni Maria Cassini, produced this decorative map of the British Isles during the time of the Roman Empire.
Britain is shown divided according to their ancient boundaries with the names of the tribes marked in each region, also shown are cities and towns called according to their old names.
Published in: 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.
Copperplate with fine original hand colour, some foxing, otherwise 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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