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Digital Image: 1779 Orcel / Schmettau Folding Wall Map of Sicily, Italy
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Title
Descrizione Geografica del Regno di Sicilia e sue Isole …
1779 (dated) 39 x 50 in (99.06 x 127 cm) 1 : 265000
1779 (dated) 39 x 50 in (99.06 x 127 cm) 1 : 265000
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Cartographer S
Gian Giuseppe Orcel (fl. c. 1775 - 1793) was a French bookseller and publisher based in Palermo, Sicily, during the second half of the 18th century. Orcel opened a bookshop in Palermo, operating in partnership the brothers Martinon, one of who had a shop in Messina. Orcel and a few others were solely responsible for selling and publishing foreign language titles in Sicily and thus keeping the lines of intellectual exchange open. He greatest cartographic achievement was the publication of a massive wall map of Italy based upon the original 1720 manuscript of the Austrian military officer and surveyor Samuel Graf von Schmettau, his expanded and revised map, on a much larger scale the Schmettau's 1723 publication, was the finest and largest map of Sicily yet published. More by this mapmaker...
Samuel Graf von Schmettau (March 24, 1684 - August 18, 1751) was a Prussian Field Marshal and cartographer active in the first half of the 18th century. Schmettau was born in London at the Royal Prussian Amtskammerrat the Embassy of influential Hugueont stock. He joined the military at just 15, serving under various flags for various commanding officers, most of whom were his relatives. He saw battle on multiple occasions and rose quickly through the ranks, being made major in 1707 and lieutenant colonel in 1708, and field marshal lieutenant in 1733. In 1741 he was made Imperial Field Marshal, but transferred to the Prussian Army to become instead Prussian Field Marshal. In 1842 he received the Order of the Black Eagle. He was an excellent self-educated cartographer, producing his first map, a detailed survey of Sicily issued in 1723. A plan of Berlin followed in 1748, and a plan of Ostfriesland in 1751. Learn More...
Garofalo Panormit (fl. c. 1750 - 1800) was an Italian engraver based in Palermo and Rome. Most of his extant work consist of ecclesiastical portraiture. In 1779 he did engrave one large map of Sicily in partnership with the French/Sicilian publisher Gian Giuseppe Orcel. Learn More...
References
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, GREN67A/3B. Maritime Museum Rotterdam, K1560. Ruggiero, R., Città D’europa E Cultura Urbanistica Nel Mezzogiorno Borbonico, page 106, no. 157.