Veduta in profilo della città di Roma dalla parte di Monte Mario presa nella sua estensione dalla Piazza del Popolo sino alla Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano, 1779. Volpato, Giovanni, 1735-1803, printmaker. 1779 The panorama of Rome, after a drawing by Francesco Panini, spans from the church of S. Maria del Popolo on the left, to the Capitoline Hill in the center and continues towards Saint Peter's on the right. The vantage point is from the countryside, and cultivated fields, farm houses, peasants and livestock appear in the foreground. Legend in 12 columns with 39 sites. Imprint: Rome, nel
Veduta in profilo della città di Roma dalla parte di Monte Mario presa nella sua estensione dalla Piazza del Popolo sino alla Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano, 1779. Volpato, Giovanni, 1735-1803, printmaker. 1779 The panorama of Rome, after a drawing by Francesco Panini, spans from the church of S. Maria del Popolo on the left, to the Capitoline Hill in the center and continues towards Saint Peter's on the right. The vantage point is from the countryside, and cultivated fields, farm houses, peasants and livestock appear in the foreground. Legend in 12 columns with 39 sites. Imprint: Rome, nella Calcografia della Reverenda Camera Apostolica appreso la Curia Innocenziana. Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt collected prints, published works, drawings and paintings thematically focused upon the city of Rome. Her collection included views, plans, maps of Rome and depictions of the inhabitants of the city in popular costume. As intense urban development under Mussolini transformed Rome in the 1930's, interest in the city's past grew among certain circles in Rome. Pecci-Blunt's collection came to be known as "Roma Sparita" because of its nostalgic focus on the Rome of a bygone era. Pecci-Blunt marked many of the prints in her collection with her collector's marks. Small, circular marks found on the recto of the prints, typically in the lower right corner, display Pecci-Blunt's family coat of arms, a comet, encircled with the text: "Coll. A. L. Pecci Blunt." Circular marks on the verso of the prints, typically in the lower center, denote Pecci-Blunt's name for her collection, "Roma Sparita." The stamps contain the text; "Roma Sparita, ," (with space for adding an inventory number), encircled with additional text "Collezione Contessa Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt."
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