Artist / Author / Cartographer:
CASSINI, GIOVANNI MARIA
Title:
South East Asia - Le Inde Orientali Delineate
Date:
1797
Medium:
copper engraving, original outline colour
Size:
35 x 48 cm
Description:
Le Inde Orientali Delineate. Sulle ultime osservazioni. Roma, Presso La Clacografia Camerale 1797.
An attractive map of South East Asia,from India across to Hainan Island and down to Ihor (Johor) at the tip of the Malay Peninsula. The map was engraved in Rome at the end of the eighteenth century.
Giovanni Cassini was a painter and engraver who worked in Rome at the end of the eighteenth century. He was a student of the famous Italian artist of architecture, Giovanni-Battista Piranesi, who he worked with. His maps are distinctive and beautifully engraved. He produced some of the most beautiful maps of the late eighteenth century.
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Item Code:
MA6921
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