ANICH PETER/MOLLO TRANQUILLO
Carte von Tyrol nach Peter Anich und neuern Hülfsquellen verfast von J.E.S.
Date: Vienna,Mollo,1809
Tyrol
Cod 7739
Subject: Tyrol
700,00 €
Copperplate engraving, mm 860x860, period hand-painted. Excellent transcription of Anich's reduced-size map engraved by F. Keisser, although the orography is sacrificed somewhat. At lower right is a nice figured cartouche reminiscent of the style of the original paper. Tranquillo Mollo, a Swiss from Bellinzona, worked for many years at the Artaria firm in Vienna. Anich's map is the fundamental Tyrolean cartographic document commissioned by explicit order of Maria Theresa to Anich, who, aided by Huber, completed the necessary surveys in a few years, producing a work of absolute precision and modernity, basic for the future development of the drawing of the territory: all nineteenth-century topographers would look to it; the region is in fact described in an exemplary manner, listing mines, mills, and alpine pastures without omitting anything. Undoubtedly, in relation to Trentino, he considered Sperg's earlier map, improving it greatly, however. Perini (for the eighteenth-century original): “Italy and its regions in ancient maps” p. 90. Tomasi: “The Trentino-Tyrolean Territory,” no. 89.
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