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Giacomo Giovanni Rossi

Title

Vienna in Austria

Publication Place / Date

Rome / 1687 circa

Image Dimensions

20 x 7.5 inches

Color

Hand Colored

Condition

Stock# 60322jc

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Description

Rare view of Vienna, shown shortly after the Turkish Siege of Vienna.

The map appeared in Rossi's Teatro dell Guerra contro il Turco, published from 1687-91.

This is the first time we have ever seen this view.

Condition Description

Trimmed and tipped onto a larger sheet of old paper.

Giacomo Giovanni Rossi Biography

Giacomo Giovanni Rossi (1627-1691) was an Italian engraver and printer. He worked in Rome, the heir to an important printing business founded by his father, Giuseppe de Rossi (1570-1639). Giuseppe began the press in 1633 and Giovanni and his brother, Giandomenico (1619-1653) took it over upon his death. The brothers expanded the business and by the mid-seventeenth century it was the best-known printing house in Rome.

For his maps, Giovanni worked with Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola. They produced the Atlas Mercurio Geografico. The first edition is undated, but the second was issued in 1692, a year after Giovanni’s death. The maps were by Cantelli. The firm also published maps based on those of Nicolas Sanson.

Later, the business passed to Lorenzo Filippo (1682-?). By 1738, the firm was known as Calcografia Camerale, then, from 1870 to 1945, as the Regia Calcografica. Today, the firm is still in business and is called Calcografia Nazionale. It operates as a free museum and offers one of the best collections of prints and plates in the world.