• Topografia di Roma di Gio. Batt[ist]a Nolli dalla maggiore in questa minor tavola dal medesimo ridotta. Rome, 1748

Curatorial Notes:
  • Mapmaking was one of Piranesi’s first activities as an artist. When he first came to Rome, Piranesi helped Nolli make an enormous map of Rome, published in 1748. Together with Nolli’s son Carlo, Piranesi etched this small map, a miniature version of the bigger one. It was sold together with the sheets of the larger plan, as in this bound volume. The small city views at the bottom of the map, the putti at the top, and the cartouche and lists of monuments at the sides are some of Piranesi’s earliest printed work. The views of ancient and modern Roman monuments include the Trevi Fountain, Bernini’s Four Rivers Fountain, and the Column of Trajan.
Date:
  • 1748
Format:
  • Map
Type:
  • Maps
Extent:
  • 1 map ; 69 x 46 cm.
Creator:
Publisher:
  • Roma : Gio. Battista Nolli, 1748.
Language:
  • Italian
Subject:
  • Rome (Italy)—Maps—Early works to 1800
  • Rome (Italy)—History—1420-1798—Maps
Author:
  • Nolli, Giambattista, approximately 1692-1756
Contributor:
  • Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
  • Nolli, Carlo, -approximately 1770
Cartographic scale:
  • Scale not given.
Alternative:
  • Picciola Pianta, la nuova topografia di Roma
  • Picciola Pianta di Roma
  • Topografia Di Roma Di Gio. Batt[ist]a Nolli dalla maggiore in questa minor tavola dal medesimo ridotta
  • Topografia Di Roma
Description:
  • "D.V.E. Roma il di primo del 1748."
  • Relief shown by hachures.
  • "33-34."
  • Added title: Topografia Di Roma Di Gio. Batt[ist]a Nolli dalla maggiore in questa minor tavola dal medesimo ridotta.
  • Shows names of buildings, plazas, churches, drainage, and other points of interest.
  • Includes index.
  • Ex copy: Plates 33 and 34 in: Nuova pianta de Roma.
Credit line:
  • Rare Books, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/mg74qt05k