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Roberto Adam Britanno architecturae cultori Ichnographiam Campi Martii antiquae urbis Ioannes Baptista Piranesius in sui amoris argumentum D.D.D
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 (artist)Ashby, Thomas, 1874-1931 (collector)Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 (dedicatee)
[Romae]
[apud Auctorem]
[1757-1760]
[6] leaves : map (etching) ; 142,5 x 125,5 cm.
This is one of two prints of the Ichnographia in the BSR collections and can be identified as a print of the first state, dated c. 1757-60. This first state was previously unrecognised; the important differences between the two states have been analysed by Clare Hornsby in an essay: Circuses and carceres: an investigation into the recently revealed first state of Piranesi’s Ichnographiam Campi Martii Antiquae Urbis and its antiquarian context examined published in the Papers of the British School at Rome, vol. 92, 2024. This large-scale map of the Campus Martius described the history and the present state of the area; this map showed the area restored to its former glory, and was based on the marble fragments of the Severan plan of the city, which had been reassembled by Nolli in the 1740s. The plan was dedicated to Robert Adam.
"Regula palmorum MCC." Etching in six joined plates, each plate numbered on top left or top right, or on left or right margins, anti-clockwise: Tab. V, Tab. VI, Tab. VII, Tab. VIII, Tab. IX, Tab. X. Forms part of: Ashby Collection. Prints.
Focillon, 440 Wilton-Ely, 571 [for the 2nd state]
MapsEarly works to 1800
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609.2.75.1
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