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One of the Earliest Printed Views of Rome
Rome.
SCHEDEL, H. [Nuremberg, 1493]
Roma.
15 x 21 inches
Fine hand color; reinforced centerfold as always, else excellent condition.
An evocative woodcut view of Renaissance Rome, still at the time very much dominated by the monumental architecture of its imperial past. A smaller but still quite well-detailed view of Genoa is on the back of the sheet. This work appeared in the Nurenberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book published to its date, and the first to contain a large number of views of major cities.
cf. Nordenskiold, A. E. Facsimile Atlas, p. 40; Campbell, T. The Earliest Printed Maps, no. 220 |
