print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1926,0521.15.1
- Title
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Object: Title page: Raccolta di 50. Vedute Antiche, e Moderne
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Series: Raccolta di 50. Vedute Antiche e Moderne della città di Rome e sue vicinanze
- Description
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Title plate to series with title and supplementary publication details. Representation of Minerva, Romulus and she-wolf, and personification of the River Tiber. Etching
- Production date
- 1815-1818
- Dimensions
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Height: 149 millimetres
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Width: 189 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Title page to a bound series of 49 etchings published by Piale, Rome. See 1926,0521.15.1-50 for entire set. See also 1947,0319.6.1-49 and 1915,1211.2.1-55 for two further editions of this series and see 1947,0319.6.0 for a further overall comment on Piale's series. It should be noted that a number of plates in this particular volume do not appear in either of the two other volumes. These include: 1926,0521.15.38; 1926,0521.15.47; 1926,0521.15.48; 1926,0521.15.49; 1926,0521.15.50.
This series comprises 50 plates, including a title-plate which lacks a date. However an inscription on the flyleaf written in black ink states 'Rome January 1828' providing a publication terminus ante-quem.
Furthermore, a number of the plates have numbering, often the upper right margin, which corresponds to the page references included in the edition of Ridolfino Venuti's 'Accurata e succinta descrizione topografica delle antichità di Roma' published by Piale in 1824. This therefore means that this particular volume must have been published by Piale between circa 1824 and 1828. The plates with these page references are thus later states than those included in the earlier editions in the BM and some plates have also been re-etched in places.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Acquisition notes
- According to the BM Register, puchased from Messrs R. Fletcher Ltd. for £0.4.0
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1926,0521.15.1