MOLLO, TRANQUILLO: MAP OF DALMATIA

Inventory number 199

Original title: Oesterreichs Dalmatien und Albanien

Publishing year: 1805

Place of publishing and publisher: Wien, F. Reisser

Format: 71 x 51,5 cm

Technique: Partially coloured lithograph

Mollo's map shows Dalmatia in the short period of the first Austrian rule, established between 1797 and 1806, after which in 1806 the French administration was later organized as Napoleon's Illyrian Provinces. Violet colours indicate Dalmatian borders and pale red indicates the border of the Dubrovnik Republic several years before its abolition (it was abolished by the French in 1808). Croatia is bordered by yellow colour, and Bosnia, still in the Ottoman Empire, is green. Under Habsburg rule, there was also Boka Kotorska and part of the coast to Budva and Lastva (today Montenegro), which were part of the Venetian Republic until 1797. Relief is depicted by the new, then very modern method - the so-called hatching, or dash marks that designate the terrain configuration. Traffic communications are also marked in Croatia and Dalmatia. Moll's map of Dalmatia and Albania was engraved in stone by F. Reisser in Vienna in 1805.

MOLLO, TRANQUILLO

MOLLO, TRANQUILLO (most productive period: 1800-1837), a Viennese engraver, printer and publisher of art editions, including music. His maps were drawn and engraved by Josef Ignaz Gurk (most productive period: 1795-1826) and his son Eduard Gurk (who worked from 1801 to 1841). Mollo collaborated with and published for Sotzman in 1812 and N. Dirwald (America was published in 1823). In addition to this, his most significant works were Teutschland from 1800, Turkai from 1808, Bohemien & Galicien from 1809 and Austria from 1816. He was succeeded by his son EDWARD MOLLO (1797-1842), an engraver and publisher.