Item 1489 - Rome

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GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1489

Title

Rome

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  • 1773 (Creation)

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1 map: black and white; engraving; 66.2 x 45.2 cm on 71.8 x 50.1 cm sheet on 77.5 x 59.6 cm backing

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Name of creator

Benedetti, Ignazio, 1725-1790, engraver
(1725-1790)

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Italian engraver.

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University of Strathclyde Archives and Special Collections, United Kingdom

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'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'

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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).

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  • Italian

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