Ughi Map of Venice - The first Wall Map of Venice based on an accurate

The first Wall Map of Venice based on an accurate field surveys UGHI, Lodovico (Active c. 1700-1740). Iconografica rappresentazione della inclita città di Venezia al reggio serenissimo dominio veneto. [Venice:] Lodovico Furlanetto, 1729 [but 1739]. Second state. Here is what AI says it’s worth: $18,888. Cost: EUR 6,250. 20 sheets as joined (sheet: 62 3/8” x 83 5/16”, 1584mm x 2116mm; frame: 70 ¼” x 91 3/16”, 1784mm x 2316mm). Copper-plate etched-engraved map, at a scale of ca. 1:2,260. Float-matted and framed. Of Lodovico (Ludovico) Ughi, nothing but his authorship — or at least his dedication — of the present map is known. He signs his inscription as a “Kavalier,” i.e., a cavaliere (knight; this is the only rank) of the Ordine di San Marco. Some sources claim that he was from Bologna or from Ferrara. His map, however, has gained everlasting fame as the epochal and defining depiction of La Serenissima. Depictions of Venice have a long history, but Ughi’s 1729 plan is based on a re-surveying of the city — no easy task in a swamp — and underlaid depictions of the city well into the XIXc. Composed from 20 sheets, the vast map (nearly 7 feet wide) is flanked by 16 vignettes engraved by Francesco Zucchi after Luca Carlevarijs (1663–1730) and surmounts eight columns of text detailing the principal sites and structures of the city. At the top-right is an allegorical scene (after Sebastiano Ricci) of La Serenissima atop the lion of Saint Mark, borne by dolphins and escorted by putti, tritons and mermaids. At the upper edge, a putto holds a banner on which is a poem of Sannazaro, “Viderat Adriacis Venetam Neptunus in undis/ stare urbem…” (Neptune had seen Venice, a city standing in the Adriatic waves…) published in 1535. At the bottom left are the arms of the Mocenigo family,[1] which supplied seven doges; the doge at the time of the original plate (the only difference between the first state and the present is the alteration of the publisher at lower right, from Giuseppe Baroni to Lodovico Furlanetto) was Alvise III Sebastiano Mocenigo (1662–1732; r. 1722–1732). The date of the map is based on Moretto, who gives no explanation. Schulz, citing Gallo, asserts that the map’s “plates were acquired by Furlanetto before 1779, when they were listed as part of his stock.” 1739 is certainly a more plausible date. Condition: With some marginal restorations. Altogether a very good copy, with areas of tanning. Moretto, Gino (ed.). Venetia: le immagini della Reppublica. Padova: Papergraf, 2001; 152. Schulz, Juergen. “The printed plans and panoramic views of Venice (1486-1797)”. No. 117. [1] Moretto calls these the Morosini arms (Or, a bend Azure), but they are those of Mocenigo (per fess Azure on Argent, 2 roses counterchanged) in both the first and second states. Moretto also claims that the dedication is to Aloysio Mocenigo.

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