Vrbis Romae ichnographia …, 1755. 1755 Plan of modern Rome, copied from Giambattista Nolli's 1748 etched reduction of Leonardo Bufalini's large woodcut, first published 1551. See Huelsen, Scaccia-Scarafoni. Printed on 2 large sheets joined at vertical margins. Title proper and imprint on cartouche at upper left with arms of Clement XI, followed by a note entitled "Monitum." Additional title at top center: ROMA. To the right of the cartouche is a note explaining the color coding: red for the city, yellow for antiquities, violet for ecclesiastical buildings. Index of 307 names of buildings and s
Vrbis Romae ichnographia …, 1755. 1755 Plan of modern Rome, copied from Giambattista Nolli's 1748 etched reduction of Leonardo Bufalini's large woodcut, first published 1551. See Huelsen, Scaccia-Scarafoni. Printed on 2 large sheets joined at vertical margins. Title proper and imprint on cartouche at upper left with arms of Clement XI, followed by a note entitled "Monitum." Additional title at top center: ROMA. To the right of the cartouche is a note explaining the color coding: red for the city, yellow for antiquities, violet for ecclesiastical buildings. Index of 307 names of buildings and sites keyed to the plan, in two parts at left and right margins. In lower left corner a view of the Pantheon, in lower right a view of the Temple of Janus. Oriented with north at top. Relief shown by hachures. On verso of Getty copy are written in ink "67", followed by "67 Rom" within a circle, apparently pertaining to an old collection. Property stamp at lower right verso of C E Rappaport (ie Carl Ewald Rappaport, bookseller in Rome from 1906). Various booksellers' marks in pencil on verso.
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