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SANSON, NICOLAS: MAP OF DALMATIA

SANSON, NICOLAS: MAP OF DALMATIA

Inventory number 39
Original title: Coste de Dalmacie ou sont remarques les Places qui appartiennent a la Republique de Venise, a la Republique de Raguse, et au Grand Seigneur des Turqs tiree de divers Autheurs. Par le Seigneur Sanson d’ Abbeville geographe ordinaire de sa Majeste
Publishing year: 1664
Place of publishing and publisher: Paris
Format: 40,5 x 56 cm
Technique: Coloured copper engraving

This Sanson's map was issued in his atlas of 1664. It shows the whole Venetian Dalmatia and the Republic of Dubrovnik. The borders, especially the northern ones are not accurate. The influence of Venetian maps is obvious as these regularly included Herzegovina within the Dalmatian borders as it was the zone of their interest. Coastal and insular profiles are quite accurate. Between the rivers Cetina and Neretva two in-existent river islands are depicted. The continental part of the Venetian Dalmatia is colored yellow, and the Republic of Dubrovnik green. The respectively belonging islands are not colored following the same logic, so, the islands of Korčula and Brač that at the time were making part of the Republic of Venice are colored green. The territory around Bocche di Cattaro is colored in pink although in the time of production of this map it was under Turkish administration (it passed under Venetian control only in 1700 i.e. in 1730). Landforms are not represented. The title is shown in the lower left corner in a baroque cartouche decorated with cherubs and military symbols. To the left of the cartouche the engraver left his signature: Lhuiler fe. The text placed below the cartouche explains that the settlements inhabited by Christians are indicated with a cross, and those having Muslim population with a crescent.

SANSON, NICOLAS
NICOLAS SANSON (1600-1667), one of the most important French cartographers of the early Modern World. He was the first one whom was given the title of a royal cartographer, and he is considered the father of French Cartography. He is also one of the first French cartographers who issued map images of the Croatian lands. The first Sanson's atlas appeared in 1654. The second one and the most famous of Sanson's atlases "Cartes generales de toutes les parties du monde" appeared in 1658. The second edition of this atlas was published as early as in 1664.
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