Antonio Zatta (
fl. 1757 – April 2, 1797) was an Italian
cartographer and
publisher
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who was based in
Venice
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. He may have lived from 1722 to 1804. One of his major contributions includes the ''Atlante Novissimo'', a four volume atlas of the world.
Also, his grand study of
St Mark's Basilica in Venice, printed in 1761.
He also published an edition of the plays of
Goldoni with engravings in 1789.
Gallery
File:1784 Zatta Map of Chinese Tartary and Korea.jpg, 1784 map of Chinese Tartary and Korea
File:A. Zatta - Il Regno di Napoli diviso nelle sue Provincie - 1782.PNG, 1782 map of the Kingdom of Naples
File:1776 Zatta Map of California and the Western Parts of North America - Geographicus - AmericaWest-zatta-1776.jpg, 1776 map of the North Pacific coast, particularly of North America. Note the erroneous presence of a Chinese colony " Fou-Sang", and the rumoured Strait of Anián.
File:Antonio Zatta - Regno di Boemia.jpg, 1779 map of the Kingdom of Bohemia
File:Eastern Europe by Antonio Zatta.jpg, 1781 map of Eastern Europe
File:Zatta New Discoveries in the North Pacific 1776 Cornell CUL PJM 1026 01.jpg, Another version of the above map of the North Pacific (1776)
See also
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Sea of the West
The Sea of the West, or ''Mer de l'Ouest'', was a geographic misconception of an inland sea in the Pacific Northwest that appeared on many maps of the 18th century. The depiction was particularly common on French maps. The sea was supposed to be co ...
References
External links
Antonio Zatta at Geographicus.comAntonio Zatta at alteagallery.comAntonio Zatta at bergbook.com
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1722 births
1804 deaths
18th-century Italian cartographers