AN INCREDIBLY RARE & LARGE LATE 17TH CENTURY MAP OF IRELAND 

AN INCREDIBLY RARE & LARGE LATE 17TH CENTURY MAP OF IRELAND

By Vincenzo Maria Coronelli.

Italian circa 1690's.

Dimensions unframed:
Height 91.5 cm / 36 inch
Width 91cm / 24 inch 

Condition, good.

Note, framed in Gilt frame with museum glass on conservation mount boards 

Vincenzo Maria Coronelli was one of the greatest cartographers of his time.

At age sixteen he published the first of his one hundred forty separate works. 

In 1671 he entered the Convent of Saint Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice.

He excelled in the study of both astronomy and Euclid. A little before 1678, Coronelli began working as a geographer and was commissioned to make a set of terrestrial and celestial globes for Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma. 

Each finely crafted globe was five feet in diameter (c. 175 cm) and so impressed the Duke that he made Coronelli his theologian. Coronelli's renown as a theologian grew and in 1699 he was appointed Father General of the Franciscan order.

Coronelli's next big project was for Louis XIV.

Cardinal César d'Estrées, adviser to Louis XIV and ambassador to Rome, saw the Duke of Parma’s globes and invited Coronelli to Paris in 1681 to construct a pair of globes. Coronelli moved to the French capital in 1681, where he lived for two years. Each globe was composed of spindles of bent timber about ten feet long and four inches broad at the equator.

PRICE: £3,300