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Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1548 · Item · [late 17th century]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

Four engravings of notable buildings and views at Rome.
All titles in Italian and French.

'Israel Silvestre deli. et fecit com privil. Regis'
'P. Mariette ex'

Pierre Mariette after Israël Silvestre.

Silvestro, Israël, 1621-1691, draughtsman and engraver
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1549 · Item · No date
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

Two views of notable buildings at Rome, mounted on one sheet.

  • 'Palazzo Pontificio sul Quirinale'; 'G. Vasi dis. sc.'; 32.1 x 21 cm; from 'Delle Magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna, vol 4 (1754), plate 61 (Scalabroni, Luisa, ‘Guiseppe Vasi (1710-1782)’ (Rome: Multigrafica, 1981), no. 141).

  • Unidentified building with steps leading down to a water; anon.; 42.5 x 45.8 cm sheet and backing

Vasi, Giuseppe, 1710-1782, engraver
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1489 · Item · 1773
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'La Topografia di Roma Di Gio Batta Nol[l]i Dalla Maggiore in Questa Minor Tauloa Dal Medesimo ridot[t]a E Da Ignazio Benedetti Incisa'

Scale unspecified.

Dedication to Cardinal Gio. Carlo Boschi in top left corner.

'3' endorsed top left corner in manuscript in pencil.

[Cities Exhibition.]

This is the second edition of Giovanni Battista Nolli's small map of Rome (1748), (Denison, Cara D., Myra Nan Rosenfeld, and Stephanie Wiles, 'Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries' (Montréal: Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 1993), p. 84).

Benedetti, Ignazio, 1725-1790, engraver
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1493 · Item · [c. 1835]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Plan of Ancient Rome. by W. B. Clarke, Arch[itec]t'
'Engraved by J. & C. Walker'
'Published under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge'

J[ ] and C[ ] Walker after W[ ] B[ ] Clarke.

Scale: 1 inch to 400 feet

Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1496 · Item · [c. 1900]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Rome Imperiale (IVe Siecle A P. J. C.) par P. Bigot Architecte Ancien Pensionnaire de L'Academie de France a Rome'

Plan and bird's eye view of ancient Rome, small key map indicates view point for perspective view and area covered.

Scale: 18 centimetres to 1000 metres

Bigot, Paul Marie Arsène, 1870-1942, architect and draughtsman
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1502 · Item · No date
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'The City of Ancient Rome as in the Reign of Caesar Augustus. Exhibiting in their proper Situations the Public & Magnificient Structures of Rome, in it's highest Glory'

Title repeated in French.

'Printed for Robert Wilkinson, 58 --- Cornhill, & Bowles & Carver. 69, St Paul's Church Yard, London'

Anon.

'Holy City' endorsed bottom left corner in manuscript in pencil [by Patrick Geddes].

'915' [Cities Exhibition] endorsed in bottom right corner in manuscript in pencil.

Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1505 · Item · 1905
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Antiquae Urbis Pars'

Reproduction of a photograph of a model of ancient Rome showing the area between Mount Palatine and Forum Caesarum.

'Modello Plastico eseguito nell Anno MCMV dal Prof. G. Marcelliani'

G[ ] Marcelliani.

Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1511 · Item · [c. 1750 - 1760]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Veduta della Villa dell' Emo. Sig.n Card. Alesandro Albani fuori di Porta Salaria'
'Cavalier Piranesi inc.'
'Cities Exhibition 2 [number added in manuscript in pencil] No. 452'

From 'Vedute di Roma' (late 1740's to after 1760) (Wilton-Ely, John, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings' (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 1, no. 222).

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1521 · Item · No date
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'View of the Forum Romanum'

Anon. after L[ ] Levy.

'Restored by L. Levy, Karlsruhe' endorsed in pencil in bottom margin.

Further illegible endorsements in manuscript in pencil in bottom left corner.

Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1528 · Item · [c. 1750-1760]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Veduta degli avanzi di due Triclinj che appartenevano all casa aurea di Nerone, presi erroneamente per i Templi [del] Sole, e della Luna, O d'Iside, e Serapide. [...]'
'G. B. Piranesi Archit. incise'
'Cities Exhibition No. 333'

'4' endorsed on backing in manuscript in pencil in bottom right corner.

'John Mo[ ]on's Trust Engraving No. 19' endorsed in manuscript in pencil on reverse in top margin.

From 'Vedute di Roma' (late 1740s to after 1760) (Wilton-Ely, John, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings' (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 1, no. 149).

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1535 · Item · 1817
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Vue du Chateau et du Pont St. Ange à Rome'
'Ct. Bourgeois, 187.'
'Imp. Lithgr. de G: Engelmann Cassette N 18 à Paris'
'Cities Exhibition No. 916'

Bourgeois, Florent Fidèle Constant, 1767-1841, lithographer
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1538 · Item · No date
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'The Arch of Titus - Rome. From the Picture in the National Gallery'
Engraving of J. M. W. Turner's painting 'Forum Romanum, for Mr. Soane's Museum' (1826).
'J M W Turner, R. A. Pinx[i]t.'
'E. Challis, Sculpt.'

Ebenezer Challis after Joseph Mallard William Turner.

Challis, Ebenezer, fl. 1837-1863, painter and engraver