REDUCED PLAN OF ROME BASED ON LEONARDO BUFALINI’S ORIGINAL FROM 1551

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BRUNO, Giovanni.

Roma.

In Roma, Presso listesso al Corso Palazzo Rondinini, 1798.

One engraved sheet, 55 x 80.1 cm (platemark 47.8 x 69 cm). On upper left corner: “Giovanni Brun Sculps. In Roma 1798 Presso listesso al Corso Palazzo Rondinini”; on lower right: “Edita per Magrm Leonardum Die XXVI. Meñ. Maij Anno Domini M.D.LI.”. A few small marginal closed tears, light browning at lower left; matted. Very good overall.

Copper engraving of  the famous plan of Rome engraved in 1551 by Leonardo Bufalini, reduced by Giovan Battista Nolli in 1748, and engraved here by Giovanni Bruno (1754–1800), an engraver active in Rome in the late 18^th century and working in that capacity for the Museo Clementino (Pelliccioni, p. 46).

* A. Pelliccioni, Dizionario degli Artisti Incisori Italiani, (1949), p. 46.

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