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Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1487 · Item · 1574
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

Map of the city of Rome, comprising eight sheets mounted on linen backing.

'Urbis Romae Sciographia Ex Antiquis Momentis Acccuratiss Delineata'
'Cura, et Tipis lo. Iacobi de Rubeis in Romae ad Templ. S.ta M.a de Pace Cum Privil. Sum. Pont.'
'Excudebat Io. de Rubeis'

Johan de Rubeis.

Scale unspecified.

Dedication to 'Karolo IX Galliarum Regi Christianissimo Stephanus Du Perac Parisiensis'.

'Cities Exhibition No. 789'

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
Cassino
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1440 · Item · 1705
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Le Mont Cassin'
'Dessine sur le lieux par M. de la Salle'
'A Paris chez le S.r de Fer dans L'Isle du Palais a la Sphere Royale avec privil. du Roy. 1705'

Mantua
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1467 · Item · [1734 or later]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Plan de Mantoue et de ses Environs par M. de Beaurain'

Scale unspecified.

'No. 22' endorsed top right corner.

From 'Voyage en Italie', (vol. viii, plate 5).

Beaurain, Jean Chevalier, De, 1696-1772, engineer and geographer
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1488 · Item · [after 1748]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Plan de Rome, Extrait de celui qui fut publie par J. B. Nolli, en 1748'

Anon. [after Giovanni Battista Nolli's Rome map from 1748].

Scale unspecified.

Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1486 · Item · 1748
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Roma'
'Silvio Valenti Tit. S. Callix Presb. SRE Card Camerario Benedicti XIV PM Administro Urbis Ichnographiam A Leonardo Bufalino Ligneis formis Evulgatam Servata Proptione contractam Atq. Æri incisam Jo: Bapta Nolli, Geometra, & Architect Novocom DDD'
'Romæ cum privil. sum Pontifici, et super, permissu anno 1748'

Giovanni Battista Nolli after Leonardo Bufalin's Rome map from 1551.

Scale unspecified.

'Edita per Magrm Leonardum Die XXVI Men. Maij Anno Domini MDLI' inscribed in bottom margin.

'35', '36' endorsed in top left and right corners.

From Nolli, 'Nuova Topografia de Roma' (Rome, 1748), pp. 35-36.

Nolli, Giovanni Battista, 1701-1756, surveyor, engraver
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/22/1/1528 · 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
Genoa
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1462 · Item · [c. 1750]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Plan de la ville de Genes'

Anon.

Scale unspecified.

'No. 23' endorsed top right corner.

From 'Voyage en Italie', (vol. viii, plate 6).

Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1515 · Item · [c. 1750-1760]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Veduta del Tempio di Cibele a Piazza della Bocca dell Verità'
'Piranesi Archit. dis. ed. incise'

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. 183).

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1529 · Item · [c. 1750-1760]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Veduta degli Avannzi del Tempio della Pace.'
[Basilica of Maxentius (or Constantine)]
'Piranesi Architetto fec.'

'Ed. Yates' endorsed in bottom right corner in manuscript in pencil.

'[ ]' [monogram endorsed on reverse in bottom right corner in manuscript in pencil.

Watermark (French Lilly in oval) in half of sheet.

Traces of former backing on reverse.

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. 161.
Wilton-Ely lists this engraving with the title "Veduta degli avanzi del Tablino della Casa Aurea di Nerone, detti volgamente il Tempio della Pace", earlier impressions appeared under the title as noted above in the catalogue entry.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
Cúneo
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1443 · Item · [1751]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Cony, a strong city of Piedmont in the States of Savoy'
'Basire sculp'
'For Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr. Rapin's History of England'

[From 'Plates for Tindal's Continuation 1751', plate 7.]

Basire, James, 1730-1802, engraver
Casal
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1439 · Item · [1751]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'A view of Casal, a very strong city and castle in Italy, taken by the Duke of Savoy in Decem[be]r. 1706.'
'J. Basire sculp.'
'For Mr. Tindal's Continuation of Mr. Rapin's History of England'

[Cities Exhibition.]
[From 'Plates for Tindal's Continuation', plate 38.]

Basire, James, 1730-1802, 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/22/1/1539 · Item · [1774-1779]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

Three engravings from G.B. Piranesi's 'Trofeo osia Magnifica Colonna Coclide...' (1774-1779).

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect