Descriptio septem ecclesiarum Romæ quarum forma hodie naturaliter extat. Descripcion de las siete yglesias de Roma, como hoy estan, circa 1760. [ca. 1760] Seven Pilgrim Churches Issued for Spanish visitors and pilgrims to the Holy City, the print depicts the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome, beginning with Saint Peter's, and continuing clockwise, with Santa Maria Maggiore, San Lorenzo fuori le mura, S. Croce in Gerusalemme, Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano, Basilica di S. Sebastiano and San Paolo fuori le mura. The print also includes two other churches and the Castel Sant'Angelo in the lower

Descriptio septem ecclesiarum Romæ quarum forma hodie naturaliter extat. Descripcion de las siete yglesias de Roma, como hoy estan, circa 1760. [ca. 1760] Seven Pilgrim Churches Issued for Spanish visitors and pilgrims to the Holy City, the print depicts the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome, beginning with Saint Peter's, and continuing clockwise, with Santa Maria Maggiore, San Lorenzo fuori le mura, S. Croce in Gerusalemme, Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano, Basilica di S. Sebastiano and San Paolo fuori le mura. The print also includes two other churches and the Castel Sant'Angelo in the lower left corner. In the lower right-hand corner a small map with a key indicates the route to be followed by pilgrims to arrive at the churches. A portrait of Pope Clement XIII and his coat of arms appear directly below the Latin title at the top of the print. This print closely resembles Lauro's Le sette chiese di Roma con le loro principali reliquie stationi et indultie in this collection, as well as later prints published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi of the same subject. With Pecci-Blunt collector's mark in blue ink, in the lower right hand corner and one on the verso. Ref.: Arrigoni-Bertarelli 763. 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."

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