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SZEMAN,  JOSEPH: VIEW OF ZAGREB

SZEMAN, JOSEPH: VIEW OF ZAGREB

Inventory number 489
Original title: Prospectus L. R. Civitatis Zagrabiensis ad meridiem
Publishing year: 1822
Place of publishing and publisher: Wien
Format: 45 x 63 cm
Technique: Copper engraving

This is the first of nine sheets (the upper right corner) of the large map of the Diocese of Zagreb (Diocesis Zagrabiensis), dedicated to the Zagreb bishop Maksimilijan Vrhovac. According to M. Marković in his "Descriptio Croatiae": "The presentation is not particularly successful, but there are no better presentations of this kind from that time". However, in his later book, "Croatian Cities on Old Plans and Views", Marković says: "Many details are drawn true and reliable, but there are details that do not reflect the real situation." The panorama of Zagreb shows a view from the south, from today's Mesnička Street in the east to the church of St. Peter in the west. Attention was paid to the display of some buildings, and especially the summer residence of bishop Vrhovac in Vlaška Street. The cathedral is, of course, depicted as it looked before the great earthquake. Marković concludes: "Szemann's panorama should be accepted as a documentary graphic that deserves everybody's attention."

SZEMAN, JOSEPH (JOSEPHUM, JOSIP)
SZEMAN, JOSEPH (JOSEPHUM, JOSIP) (1783-1844), a geometer and cartographer. He served in Zagreb as a County and Episcopal Surveyor and surveyor for the Sava River navigation. His most important work is the engraved map of the Zagreb Diocese in nine sheets, with the scope and division into regional parishes, originally the Mappa Dioecesis Zagrabiensis from 1822 and 1825, which he made at the order of Bishop Maksimilijan Vrhovac. The engraving of the content and graphic addendums was carried out by one of the best engravers and cartographers in Hungary at the time, Ferenc Karacs (Franjo Karač). Around 1850, after Szeman’s death, his map of the Zagreb Diocese, which he worked on until 1836, was published in Graz under the title Mappa Comitatus Zagrabiensis.
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