Historic Map : Heymann Dissected Wall Antique Map of Italy, 1815, Vintage Wall Art

A beautifully engraved 1815 large format postal map of Italy by the Austrian cartographer Ignaz Heymann. This remarkable map covers from Lake Geneva to Sicily and from Toulon to Corfu, covering in the process all of Italy, Sardinia, Corsica, and Sicily, as well as parts of Tunisia in north Africa, Istria, and Monte Negro. Naturally for a map of this size the detail throughout is outstanding, with even tiny hamlets identified. Mountains in particular are beautifully rendered in profile with additional shading to further elucidate terrain. An inset in the lower right details Malta.

Heymann originally published this map in 1806. It received several updates, this 1815 edition being the last under Heymann, published in the very year his death. It was issued in Vienna and edited by Giuseppe Riedl.