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Digital Image: 1760 Dávila Jesuit Map of Paraguay, Uruguay, La Plata
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Title
Paraquariae Provinciae Soc. Jesu Cum Adiacentibus Novissima Descriptio Post iterata peregrinationes et plures observationes Patrum Missionariorum . . . 1732.
1760 (dated) 29.5 x 24.25 in (74.93 x 61.595 cm) 1 : 2000000
1760 (dated) 29.5 x 24.25 in (74.93 x 61.595 cm) 1 : 2000000
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Cartographer S
Juan Francisco Dávila (1682 - 1733), also known as 'de Ávila, was a Spanish colonial missionary and Jesuit lay brother active in Paraguay and Argentina in the early 17th century. Dávila was born in Buenos Aires. He spent 10 years between 1712 and 1722 mapping the Jesuit Reductions in the Rio de La Plata Basin. Little else has been recorded of his life. More by this mapmaker...
Giovanni Petroschi (1715 - 1766) was an Italian engraver, cartographer, and map publisher based in Rome. He was considered the foremost authority on Latin American cartography in the first half of the 18th century. He published several important Jesuit maps, including Carolo Brentano's Provincia Quitensis (1751) and Jose Antonio de Sylverio Villaseñor y Sánchez 's map of Mexico (1754). Although significant as a cartographer, Petroschi, like many Jesuit publishers, lived humbly in religious obscurity. Learn More...
References
OCLC 645200473. 'Jesuit Mission in Spanish America, 18th Century', Imago Mundi, Vol. 15, (1960), pp. 114-118 (#20). Cardiff, Guillermo Furlong, Cartografía Jesuítica del Rio de la Plata, #23. Arkway, Catalog 67:55, 2007.