RIZZI-ZANNONI, Giovanni Antonio (1736–1814) — *Li Palatinati della Russia Rossa, Podolia, and Volhynia*. Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1781.
RIZZI-ZANNONI, Giovanni Antonio (1736–1814) — *Li Palatinati della Russia Rossa, Podolia, and Volhynia*. Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1781.
Hand-colored copperplate engraving from the period, on paper, 315 × 415 mm, on a sheet measuring 387 × 505 mm. Verso blank. Traces of atlas-style folding; a few minor stains. Engraved by G. Pitteri.
A map of the provinces of Red Ruthenia, Podolia, and Volhynia, depicting the eastern borders of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from Chełm and Lublin in the north, through Lviv, Tarnopol, and Kamieniec Podolski, to the Dniester River and the Moldavian border in the south, bordering Hungary in the southwest and the Bracław region in the east. In the upper left corner is an elegant title cartouche, framed by naturalistically engraved and hand-colored sprigs of pine and fir. Several hundred town and village names are marked across the territory of the three provinces; The Dniester River and its tributaries are carefully depicted, forests are indicated by delicate dotted hatching, and the borders of provinces and counties are highlighted with contemporary hand-coloring.
The map was included in the *Atlante Novissimo Antonia Zatty*, published between 1775 and 1785, one of the most important and lavishly produced Italian atlases of the second half of the 18th century. As the title indicates, the map was based on Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni, more specifically his *Carte de la Pologne divisée par provinces et palatinats et subdivisée par districts*, published in Paris in 1772 based on cartographic materials collected by Prince Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski. The hand-drawn maps provided to Rizzi Zannoni by Jabłonowski varied significantly in quality and likely did not cover the entire territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which forced the cartographer to supplement them and combine scattered sources. Despite its inconsistent nature and uneven quality, Rizzi-Zannoni, engraved on 24 folio sheets, was considered at the time to be the best printed map of Poland and became the primary reference source for Polish cartography in the years following the First Partition.
RIZZI-ZANNONI, Giovanni Antonio (1736–1814) — *Li Palatinati della Russia Rossa, Podolia, and Volhynia*. Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1781.
Hand-colored copperplate engraving from the period, on paper, 315 × 415 mm, on a sheet measuring 387 × 505 mm. Verso blank. Traces of atlas-style folding; a few minor stains. Engraved by G. Pitteri.
A map of the provinces of Red Ruthenia, Podolia, and Volhynia, depicting the eastern borders of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from Chełm and Lublin in the north, through Lviv, Tarnopol, and Kamieniec Podolski, to the Dniester River and the Moldavian border in the south, bordering Hungary in the southwest and the Bracław region in the east. In the upper left corner is an elegant title cartouche, framed by naturalistically engraved and hand-colored sprigs of pine and fir. Several hundred town and village names are marked across the territory of the three provinces; The Dniester River and its tributaries are carefully depicted, forests are indicated by delicate dotted hatching, and the borders of provinces and counties are highlighted with contemporary hand-coloring.
The map was included in the *Atlante Novissimo Antonia Zatty*, published between 1775 and 1785, one of the most important and lavishly produced Italian atlases of the second half of the 18th century. As the title indicates, the map was based on Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni, more specifically his *Carte de la Pologne divisée par provinces et palatinats et subdivisée par districts*, published in Paris in 1772 based on cartographic materials collected by Prince Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski. The hand-drawn maps provided to Rizzi Zannoni by Jabłonowski varied significantly in quality and likely did not cover the entire territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which forced the cartographer to supplement them and combine scattered sources. Despite its inconsistent nature and uneven quality, Rizzi-Zannoni, engraved on 24 folio sheets, was considered at the time to be the best printed map of Poland and became the primary reference source for Polish cartography in the years following the First Partition.
