The Italian painter and engraver, Giovanni Maria Cassini, produced his epic three-volume atlas: Nuovo atlante geografico universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni. Roma, Calcografia camerale, 1792-1801. 

Cassini was a geographer and cartographer, but he was also skilled in engraving architectural items and perspectives – he was one of the best disciples of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Moreover, Cassini was one of the last artists to engrave spheres in the 18th century, and his globes were quite famous and widespread. He also realized the most important Italian Atlas of the 18th century; his maps always bear a cartouche.

The Cassini Atlas was reprinted by the Calcografia Camerale in the first quarter of the 19th century (before 1839). Only the first edition of the atlas is printed on contemporary laid paper, while the later issues are on 19th-century paper.