Vanni, Violante (sold)
Violante Vanni (1732 - c. 1776) was an Italian artist and engraver. Vanni is credited with being one of three people who wrote and illustrated Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e miniate al naturale. Ornithologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis, known as A Natural History of Birds in English. He also engraved at least one map of Saint Augustine that appeared in Il Gazzettiere americano in 1763 and Atlante dell'America in 1777.
The first settlement of free Blacks in what would become the United States.
Piano della Città, e Porto di Sant.'Agostino.
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This is a c. 1763 Violante Vanni map of St. Augustine, Florida. Oriented to the east, St. Augustine appears above center with its walls and fort depicted. Two Native American settlements appear to the to the north and south of St. Augustine. Fort Mose, the first free Black settlement in what became the United States, is illustrated to the right (north) of St. Augustine, here labeled as 'Forte Negro'. Depth soundings with measurements appear along the 'Canale Meridionale' with several banks are illustrated. (more details)