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Accurata, e succinta descrizione topografica delle antichitá di Roma / dell' abate Ridolfino Venuti Cortonese ...: PB 143-2020

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Accurata, e succinta descrizione topografica delle antichitá di Roma / dell' abate Ridolfino Venuti Cortonese ...

Maker(s)

Author: Venuti, Ridolfino,
Engraver: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
Engraver: Mogalli, Niccolò,
Publisher: Bernabò, Giovanni Battista,
Publisher: Lazzarini, Giuseppe,
Donor: Fitzwilliam, Richard Fitzwilliam, (Viscount)

Description

On the title page the date of publication appears preceding the printer information.
Engraved title page devices. With half-title pages.
Illustrations: 96 full-page etchings, by G.B. Piranesi (20, 19 signed), N. Mogalli (21 signed or initialed), F.P. Duflos (8 signed) and others; Piranesi's and some others repeated from his Raccolte di varie vedute di Roma (Roma, 1752), the previous edition of which was published as Varie vedute di Roma (Roma, 1748). Cf. Hind, A.M. Piranesi, p. 76-78. Large map on folded leaf by N. Mogalli and G. Petroschi; title page vignette; small cut, v.1, p. vi; 3 head- and tailpieces; 2 pictorial initials.
Colophon of vol. 2: Typis Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae.
Index in vol. 2. With list of subscribers in vol. 2.
Old classmark: 578.R6.
Binding: tree calf, border (double g. fillet); spine & board edges g.t., border g.t. on inside covers, g. lettering; marbled e.p.; a.e. yellow.

Notes

History note: Provenance: Fitzwilliam, 1783.

Measurements and weight

2 v in 1 (96 leaves of plates, [1] folded leaf of plates) : ill, map ; 29cm (4to).

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Note

Venuti, Ridolfino,1705-1763author.Roma :presso Gio: Battista Bernabò, e Giuseppe Lazzarini,1763. Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778, engraver. Mogalli, Niccolò, 1723-1792, engraver. Bernabò, Giovanni Battista, 1702-1769, publisher. Lazzarini, Giuseppe, 1702-1780, publisher. Fitzwilliam, Richard Fitzwilliam, Viscount, 1745-1816, donor. Bernabò & Lazzarini, publisher. Catholic Church. Camera Apostolica. printer.

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 143-2020
Primary reference Number: 279334
ALMA control 001: 99215403803606
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 17 December 2020 Updated: Thursday 4 November 2021 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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