Grosvenor Prints

Femmes d'un Pacha Escortées par des Serviens. Danube rive droite 7 Juillet, 1837.
Raffet 1838. Imprimé par August Bry, r du Bac 134.
Chez Gihaut frères éditeurs, Boulevart des Italiens, 5. [Paris, 1838-48.]
Lithograph on chine collé, laid on original paper printed with title and inscriptions. Total printed area 220 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾") very large margins.
A rowing boat on the Danube carrying the wives of a pacha, escorted by Serbian cavalry on the shore. Drawn by Denis Raffet for Demidov's 'Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie, exécuté en 1837'. Despite being a Russian prince, Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato (1813-70), spent much of his life in Paris, from where he financed this scientific expedition to Southern Russia, with Frenchman Denis-Auguste Raffet as the official artist.
[Ref: 48195] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Roman Temple, Demsus.
G. Hering delt _ T. Fairland lith. Printed by Fairland.
[London: T. McLean, 1838.]
Lithograph, rare, image 370 x 270mm. 14½ x 10¾".
A view inside Densus Church (also known as St Nicholas' Church) in the village of Densus, Romania, one of the oldest Romanian churches still standing. It was built in the 7th century (with 13th century additions) on the site of a 2nd century Roman temple, with materials from the Dacian Sarmizegetusa fortress. From 'Sketches on the Danube, in Hungary and Transylvania' (26 plates), by George Edwards Hering (1805-1879).
Abbey Travel 79, 25.
[Ref: 26805] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Iron-Gate Pass between Hungary and Transylvania _Wallachian Peasants.
G. Hering del: Cattn. Smith Lith:
[London: T. McLean, 1838.]
Sepia-tinted lithograph, rare, image 280 x 390mm. 11 x 15¼".
A group of Romanian peasants pausing at a shrine to pray. From 'Sketches on the Danube, in Hungary and Transylvania' (26 plates), by George Edwards Hering (1805-1879).
Abbey Travel 79, 24.
[Ref: 26808] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Jassy.
A.N. del. I. Clark sc.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1818.
Coloured aquatint. 210 x 266mm. 8¼ x 10½". Offset.
A view of Ia?i, one of the largest cities in Romania. It was the capital of the Principality of Moldavia from 1564 to 1862 and the capital of Romania from 1916 to 1918. From Adam Neal, M. D., "Travel through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia and Turkey, London, 1818".
[Ref: 27785] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de Yassy, prise du balcon de l'hotel de St Petersbourg. (Moldavie) 19 Juillet, 1837.
Raffet 1840. Imprimé par August Bry, r du Bac 134.
Chez Gihaut frères éditeurs, Boulevart des Italiens, 5. [Paris, 1838-48.]
Lithograph on chine collé, laid on original paper printed with title and inscriptions. Total printed area 240 x 290mm (9½ x 11½") very large margins.
A view of the rooftops of Iasi, once the capital of Moldavia but now part of Romania. Three cavalrymen stand in the foreground. The view was drawn by Denis Raffet for Demidov's 'Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie, exécuté en 1837'. Despite being a Russian prince, Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato (1813-70), spent much of his life in Paris, from where he financed this scientific expedition to Southern Russia, with Frenchman Denis-Auguste Raffet as the official artist.
[Ref: 48198] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Russo-Turkish War.] Die Kaiserl. Russische Armee parssirt den Pruth, und die Feindseligkeiten die Türken beginnen, d. 7.ten Mai 1828.
[Wunder sc.]
[Nuremberg?, c.1829.]
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 175 x 205mm (7 x 8"). Trimmed.
A scene from Russo-Turkish War (1827-29): the Russian army using pontoon bridges to cross the Pruth river, between Romania and Moldova. The war started after the Russians helped the Greek independence movement fight the Battle of Navarino in 1827: the Turks closed the Dardanelles to Russian ships and revoked the Akkerman Convention. The war ended with the Treaty of Adrianople, which increased Russian dominance around the Black Sea area and Georgia, and, most importantly, forced the Sultan to promise autonomy for Greece.
[Ref: 29837] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Oyetwar Peasant. Wallachian Peasant.
G. Hering del: _Cattn. Smith lith:
[London: T. McLean, 1838.]
Two sepia-tinted lithographs on one sheet, rare, each image c.275 x 205mm. 10¾ x 8".
Two Eastern European figures in traditional costume. From 'Sketches on the Danube, in Hungary and Transylvania' (26 plates), by George Edwards Hering (1805-1879).
Abbey Travel 79, 8.
[Ref: 26803] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Église Grecque a Bukharest. (Valachie) 15 Juillet, 1837.
Raffet 1839. Imprimé par August Bry, r du Bac 134.
Chez Gihaut frères éditeurs, Boulevart des Italiens, 5. [Paris, 1838-48.]
Lithograph on chine collé, laid on original paper printed with title and inscriptions. Total printed area 230 x 305mm (9 x 12") very large margins.
A Greek Orthodox church in Bucharest, drawn by Denis Raffet for Demidov's 'Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie, exécuté en 1837'. Despite being a Russian prince, Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato (1813-70), spent much of his life in Paris, from where he financed this scientific expedition to Southern Russia, with Frenchman Denis-Auguste Raffet as the official artist.
[Ref: 48200] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Église de St Georges. Bukharest. (Valachie) 15 Juillet, 1837.
Raffet 1839. Imprimé par August Bry, r du Bac 134.
Chez Gihaut frères éditeurs, Boulevart des Italiens, 5. [Paris, 1838-48.]
Tinted lithograph on chine collé, laid on original paper printed with title and inscriptions. Total printed area 210 x 310mm (8¼ x 12¼") vry large margins.
Biserica Sfantul Gheorghe Nou or Saint George New Church (despite being built in 1707) , drawn by Denis Raffet for Demidov's 'Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie, exécuté en 1837'. Despite being a Russian prince, Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato (1813-70), spent much of his life in Paris, from where he financed this scientific expedition to Southern Russia, with Frenchman Denis-Auguste Raffet as the official artist.
[Ref: 48201] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Foire de St Pierre à Giouyevo (Valachie) 15 Juillet, 1837.
Raffet 1839. Imprimé par August Bry, r du Bac 134.
Chez Gihaut frères éditeurs, Boulevart des Italiens, 5. [Paris, 1838-48.]
Lithograph on chine collé, laid on original paper printed with title and inscriptions. Total printed area 240 x 345m (9½ x 13½") very large margins.
A fair at Giurgiu. Romania, a port town probably founded by Genoese merchants in the 14th century. Despite being a Russian prince, Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato (1813-70), spent much of his life in Paris, from where he financed this scientific expedition to Southern Russia, with Frenchman Denis-Auguste Raffet as the official artist.
[Ref: 48202] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Tsar Michael Fedorovich Romanov] Michel Phedorwitz Grand Duc de Moscovie de l'an 1612 il est de la religion des grecs Schiematiques, et grand Capitaine:
B. Moncornet ex. [n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼") large margins. Staining in margins.
Oval portrait of Tsar Michael I (Mikhaíl Fyodorovich Románov, 1596-1645), Russia's first Romanov ruler.
[Ref: 58661] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Palazzo Montecitorio] Delineatio Palatii ad Innocentio XI in Monte Cita Torio Extructi.
Hieron. Frezza incidit.
[Italian, n.d., c.1720.]
Double-page folding etching on laid paper, 230 x 355mm. 9 x 14". Wide margins.
View of the principal facade of the palace completed 1694–1697 by Pope Innocent XII in the Piazza Montecitorio, Rome; the building houses the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Groups of figures to foreground. From an unidentified folio, numbered 'pag. 627' upper left.
[Ref: 24268] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Tempio di Romolo.
F.P. Duflos del. et sculp.
[n.d. c.1748.]
Etching. Plate 129 x 179mm. 5 x 7". Large paper.
The Temple of Romulus, in the Roman Forum, which was dedicated by Emperor Maxentius to his son Valerius Romulus (d.309). From the series 'Varie vedute di Roma antica e moderna'.
[Ref: 27970] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[A Muleteer on the Via Appia.]
Both fc.
[n.d., c.1655.]
Etching. Plate: 200 x 275mm (8 x 10¾"). Trimmed.
A view on the Via Appia showing a man watering his mules at the river. From a series 'Views of Rome and its Environs' by Jan Both.
[Ref: 47578] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Rome. Le Capitole. Roma. Il Campidoglio.
Dessiné d'après nature par Ph. Benoist. Imp par Lemercier à Paris. Lith par. Bachelier.
Paris. Bullas éditeur, 18 rue Tiquetonne et (Mon. Aumont) François Delarue, succ. rue J.J.Rousseau 10.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 460 x 320mm (18 x 12½"), with very large margins.
A view of the Capitoline Hill as seen from the Via del Teatro di Marcello, in which the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, the Palazzo Senatore can be seen, the Piazza del Campidoglio located at the top of the steps was deisgned by Michelangelo between 1536-1546.
[Ref: 41871] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Domus Aurea, Rome] Domus aurea Neronis, aus welchem Herzlichen gebäü
J.B. F. v. E. delineavit
Cum Pri: Sac Caes: Majest: [Leipzig, 1725]
Engraving with very large margins, platemark 300 x 430mm (11¾ x 17"). Text in French and German; foxing to margins only. Crease.
The Domus Aurea, a large villa built by Nero after the fire in AD 64 destroyed residences on the slope of the Palatine Hill. Beneath the text are the famous verses written on the city walls or spread verbally, reported by Suetonius and Martial. Plate from Austrian architect Johann Bernard Fischer von Erlach's 'Entwurf einer historischen Architektur' ('Outline of Historical Architecture', first published 1721) , the first comparative architecture of all periods and nations. When Fischer designed Vienna's Imperial Stables, they were explicitly based upon Nero's villa.
For Vienna's Imperial Stables, see ref.33399
[Ref: 33418] £350.00

Rome. Pont-rompu et Temple de Vesta. Roma. Ponte rotto e Tempio di Vesta.
Dessiné d'après nature par Ph. Benoist. Imp par Lemercier à Paris. Lith par. Bachelier.
Paris. Bullas éditeur, 18 rue Tiquetonne et (Mon. Aumont) François Delarue, succ. rue J.J.Rousseau.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 460 x 320mm (18 x 12½"), with very large margins. Very slight foxing.
A view of the river Tiber in Rome showing the ruins of the ruined Ponte Rotto amd the temple of Hercules Victor, incorrectly labelled as the Temple of Vesta.
[Ref: 41870] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Accurata, e succinta descrizione topografica e istorica di Roma Moderna Opera Postuma dell'Abate Ridolfino Venuti Cortonese...
In Roma MDCCLXVIII. Presso Carlo Barbiellini.
4 vols, 8vo, half calf with marbled boards; pp. xii +1300 (inc. half-title and four titles), 54 folding engraved plates. Spines distressed, tear in vol. 1 x6, otherwise fine. Ownership inscription 'W. Rooker Rome 1778' on half-title.
A study of the buildings of Rome, written by abbot Ridolfino Venuti (1705-63), with several etched plates by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
[Ref: 35768] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

Ponte Senatorio oggi detto Ponte rotto.
Israel Silvestre del. Piranesi sc.
[n.d., c.1748.]
Etching. 130 x 255mm (5 x 10").
The Pons Aemilius, today called the Broken Bridge, with a collapsed span. The circular temple is not the Temple of Vesta but Hercules Victor, in Foro Boaro. Published in Piranesi's 'Antichità Romanae de Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori', after a design by the 17th century French artist Israel Silvestre.
[Ref: 36480] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Rome. Place d'Espagne. Roma. Piazza di Spagna.
Dessiné d'après nature par Ph. Benoist. Imp par Lemercier à Paris. Lith par. Bachelier.
Paris. Bullas éditeur, 18 rue Tiquetonne et (Mon. Aumont) François Delarue, Succ. 10 rue J.J.Rousseau.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 460 x 320mm (18 x 12½"), with very large margins.
A view of the Spanish Steps looking towards the church of Trinita dei Monte at the top from the Piazza di Spagna. The Fontana della Barcaccia is depicted in the foreground to the right.
[Ref: 41872] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Ælian Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo, with part of the City of Rome. Le Pont d'Ælian et le Chateaux de St. Angelo, avec partie de la Ville de Rome. No.13
Printed for Robert Wilkinson, 58 _ in Cornhill & Bowles & Carver 69, St. Pauls Church Yard, London.
Engraving with fine hand colour. 280 x 420mm (11 x 16½), with large margins. Two small tears in margins.
A general view of Rome, looking up the Tiber past the Ponte Sant'Angelo and Castel Sant'Angelo (the Mausoleum of Hadrian) to the dome of St Peter's Basilica in the distance.
[Ref: 56293] £360.00

The Church of St. Mary y.e Great at Rome With y.e additional Buildings on each side. Also y.e Antique Collumn brought hither from y.e Temple of Peace by Pope Paul V. L'Eglise de St. Marie Majeure a Rome avec les Batiments...
Piranesi Delin.t Bowles Sculp.t.
London. Printed for Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill, & Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard.
Very fine hand coloured engraving on J Whatman Turkey Mill paper water marked 1819. Plate 300 x 430mm (11¾ x 17), with large margins.
A view of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major and the piazza in Rome, with the antique column from the Forum of Vespasian.
[Ref: 56295] £320.00

The Church of Santa Maria della Rotonda at Rome. It was the famous Pantheon of the Antients erected 30 years before the birth of our Saviour. L'Eglise de Santa Maria...
Seemond Delin.t Bowles Sculp.t.
Printed for Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill, & Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard.
Very fine hand coloured engraving, plate 285 x 425mm (11¼ x 16¾), with large margins.
A view of the Catholic church Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs which has been there since the year 609 and the square out front with the fountain. The site used to be a Roman temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD). It was rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian after it burnt down and probably dedicated c. 126 AD; the date of construction is unknown as Hadrian chose not to inscribe the new temple.
[Ref: 56296] £360.00

Prospectus Locorum Urbis Romæ Insicñ. Inventore Matthæo Gregorio de Rubeis Romano. Delineati et aere incisi a Livino Cruyl Gandavensi. Liber Primus. Alexandro VII P M Dicatus.
Romæ Typis Joannis Baptistæ de Rubeis Mediolanensis in foro Agonali Anno D. 1666, cum Privilegio Summi Pont.
Engraved titlepage, 385 x 260 (15¼ x 10¼"), with letterpress dedication, large margins. Two pinholes in image, tear in margin, staining at top.
A decorative titlepage to Matteo Gregorio de Rossi's 'Prospectus locorum urbis Romae Insignium', with a central plynth containing the title, with some of the important buildings of Rome, including St Peter's Basilica, the Capidoglio and the Pantheon, arrayed behind. The 'Prospectus' contained this title and ten plates drawn and engraved by Lievin Cruyl (1634-90+), a Flemish priest, draughtsman and etcher from Ghent who was active in Rome from 1664 until c.1670. He is credited helping develop the style of 'veduta' topography, pre-dating Piranesi by nearly a century. The focus of the 'Prospectus' was the building campaign of Pope Alexander VII (to whom the work is dedicated); apparently Cruyl drew buildings that were not yet finished from architects plans. Matteo Gregorio de Rossi (1638-1702) was the son and successor of the publisher Giovanni Battista de Rossi.
[Ref: 48182] £490.00

The Quirinal, or Palace of the Pope on Mount cavallo at Rome. / Le Quirinal, ou Palais du Pape sur le Montagne Cavallo a Rome.
G. Falda Delin. Parr Sculp.
Printed for Robert Wilkinson in Cornhil & Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London [n.d. c. 1821 Whatman Watermark,]
Engraving with fine hand colouring, 280 x 430mm Trimmed to platemark
This palace was built by Gregory XIII in 1574 as a summer residence, which serves today as the residence of Italy's president.
[Ref: 2390] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ruins of Ancient Rome. Ruines de l'Ancienne Rome.
G.P. Pannini Pinxt. Austin Sculp.
Printed for Carington Bowles No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard. __Robt. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleetstreet, & ___Robert Wilkinson __ in Cornhill [n.d., c.1780].
Coloured etching. 280 x 385mm (11 x 15¼").
The principal monuments in this scene are captioned below the image, including Trajan's Pillar, Arch of Constantine, and the Basilica of Antoninus. After Italian painter Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691 - 1765). Inscribed '3.' upper right.
[Ref: 7967] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[The Marian column in Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore] Colonna già dentro l'atico tempio della Pace di Vespasiano nel foro Boario, et dalle sue rovion fatta condurre d Paolo V. su la piazza S.ta Maria Maggiore.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾").
A classical column topped with a statue of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, in the Piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome. The inscription states the column was originally part of the Temple of Peace built in Forum Boarum; however modern accounts describe it as the only surviving column from the nave of the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1349. It was brought to its current location by Pope Paul V in 1614, where it was placed on a base created by the great Baroque architect Carlo Maderno (1556-1629) .
[Ref: 57522] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Chiesa Di Santa Maria In Via Lata Su La Via Del'Corso. Fatta Da N.S. Papa Alesandro VII.
Gio Batta Falda di. et f.
Per Gio. Iacomo Rossi in Roma alla Pace co P. del S.P. [n.d., c.1680.]
Etching, 170 x 285mm. 6¾ x 11¼".
The Santa Maria church and other buildings on the Via del Corso, Rome; figures and a horseman. Key either side of title. Published by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi (1627 - 1691), for 'Il Nuovo Teatro di Roma Moderna', a series of views in Rome. The engraver is Giovanni Battista Falda (1643 - 1678).
[Ref: 13434] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Chiesa Di Santa Anastasia Alle Radici Del' Palatino Verso Il Velabro. Architettura del' Cau. Gio. Lorenzo Bernini.
Gio Batta Falda dis. et fece.
Per Gio. Iacomo Rossi in Roma alla Pace co priv' del S.Pont. [n.d., c.1680.]
Etching, 170 x 290mm. 6¾ x 11½". Creasing through the image.
The church of Santa Anastasia, Piazza di Santa Anastasia, Rome; figures and horses outside. Key below title. Published by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi (1627 - 1691), for 'Il Nuovo Teatro di Roma Moderna', a series of views in Rome. The engraver is Giovanni Battista Falda (1643 - 1678).
[Ref: 13435] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Chiesa Di Santa Bibiana Sul' Monte Esquilino. Architettura del' Caure. Gio. Lorenzo Bernino.
Gio Batta Falda dis. et fece.
Per Gio. Iacomo Rossi in Roma alla Pace co Priv' del S.Pont. [n.d., c.1680.]
Etching, 170 x 290mm. 6¾ x 11½".
The church of Santa Bibiana in the Esquilino district of Rome; figures outside. Santa Bibiana, Viviana, or also called Vibiana (b. 347, Rome) was a virgin and martyr. Published by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi (1627 - 1691), for 'Il Nuovo Teatro di Roma Moderna', a series of views in Rome. The engraver is Giovanni Battista Falda (1643 - 1678).
[Ref: 13437] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Prospetto dell' Arco Trionfale fatto inalzare dalla Nobilta Romana su la Piazza del Popolo in occasione dell' ingresso in Roma li 3 Luglio 1800 Di N. Sig. PP. Pio VII.
Benedetto Piernicoli Capitno. Ingegnere inv. et dis. Pietro Ruga e Midi Pietro inc.
[Italy, c.1810.]
Engraving, image 210 x 440mm.
The reception in Rome of Pope Pius VII (1742 - 1823), born Count Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, Pope from March 14, 1800 to August 20, 1823.
[Ref: 12609] £320.00

[Veduta degl'avanzi della Curia Ostilia sul Monte Celio.]
Rossini fece Roma 1817.
Etching, proof before letters. 205 x 300mm (8 x 11¾"), with very large margins. Some rubbing.
According to Rossini these are the remains of the Curia Hostilia, an early Senate House built by Tullius Hostilius, the third king of Rome, on Monte Caelio. However it is more likely to be a substructure of the Temple of Claudius. Published as the frontispiece to Luigi Rossini's 'Antichita di Roma divise in 40 vedute'.
See BM: 1935,0520.68 [lettered].
[Ref: 17100] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Campo Vaccino at Rome.
Parr Sculp.
[London, c.1740.]
Engraving, with large margins. 205 x 260mm, 8 x 10¼". Repaired tear through title
A wiew of the Forum in Rome, here still used as a cow pasture.
[Ref: 26735] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Prospetto della Basilica Vaticana. Architettura di Carlo Maderno.
Alessandro Specchi Architetto misuro, disegno, e intaglio
Dato in luce da Domenico de Rossi in Roma a S.Ma. della Pace con Priv. del S.P. l’An. 1705.
Engraving, sheet 690 x 475mm (27¼ x 18¾"). Small margins; damp stains, extremities tatty, with tears.
The facade of St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, with a plan below. Dedication to Fra Giovanni Guerrero by publisher Lorenzo Filippo de Rossi By Alessandro Specchi (1668 - 1729), architect and topographical printmaker. Carlo Maderno (1556 - 1629) was the architect in Rome whose major works included the facades of Santa Susanna (1597-1603) and St Peter's (1607).
British Library: 15532617.
[Ref: 15027] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Rome Trinita di Monti.
[n.d. c.1830.] Imp. par Lemercier, rue de Seine, 55.
Hand-coloured lithograph with added gum arabic. 279 x 399mm (11 x 15¾"). Excellent colouring. Pinhole bottom left corner.
A view of the Church of the Santissima Trinita dei Monti, the late Renaissance titular church in Rome; situated above the Spanish Steps with the Obelisco Monti outside the front.
[Ref: 28860] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Veduta della Piazza di Monte-cavallo.
R. Ruga inc. 1826.
In Roma presso Giac. Antonelli alle Convertite No. 179. B. e in Piazza di Sciarra No. 233.
Engraving with very large margins. 290 x 340mm (11½ x 13½").
A view from the Quirinal Hill, with the two colossal marble statues of the 'Horse Tamers' (which gave the Quirinal its medieval name, Monte Cavallo), with the obelisk from the Mausoleum of Augustus between them. The figures are usually identified as the 'Dioscuri' (twins Castor and Pollux), but an alternative theory is that it is a double representation of Alexander and his horse Bucephalus. Either way, the inscriptions 'Opus Phidiae' (shown here) and 'Opus Praxiteles' ('the work of Phidias & Praxiteles) are discredited. Their size prevented them being looted by Napoleon
[Ref: 30686] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Vestigie delle Terme Diocletiane.
Piranesi F.
[n.d. c.1745.]
Etching. 131 x 185mm (5¼ x 11¼"). Trimmed.
The Baths of Diocletian were the largest and most sumptuous of imperial and ancient Rome.
[Ref: 20390] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Li Moccoletti [in pencil].
[n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint with fine hand colour, heightened with gum arabic. 205 x 285mm, 8¼ x 11¼". Margins creased.
'Li Moccolati' (i.e. stumps of candles), in which everyone tried to put out overyone else's candles, marked the end of the Roman carnival and the beginning of Lent. It was held in la Corso and the surrounding streets.
[Ref: 21084] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Scene Italienne et Vue du Vatican prise de la Villa-Borghese.
Dejuinne 1823.
Lith de Engelmann.
Fine lithograph on india paper, sheet 285 x 210mm. 11¼ x 8¼". Margins trimmed.
A man serenading woman with a guitar in the gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome; a prospect of the city and St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, in the distance. The Villa Borghese Pinciana was built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio (1560 - 1613) at the edge of Rome. The Galleria Borghese art collection now occupies the site. After François-Louis Dejuinne (1786-1844 ).
[Ref: 21656] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Distant view of Rome from Tivoli. From a picture in the posession of Frederick Perkins Esq. Gems of Art _ Plate 12.
Painted by Gaspar Poussin [Gaspard Dughet]. Engraved in Steel by S.W. Reynolds, Engraver to the King.
[London. Published Dec 1. 1823: by W.B. Cooke, 9 Soho Square.]
Mezzotint on steel. 210 x 275mm (8¼ x 10¾), with very large margins Some spotting.
Engraving after a painting by Gaspar Dughet (1615-75), who often used the name of his brother-in-law and teacher, Nicolas Poussin. Along with Claude Lorrain, Dughet was one of the landscape painters whose works were best-known to British audiences in the 18th century. His landscapes, disseminated through prints such as this, were highly influential on the nascent English landscape school. From 'Gems of Art: Forming a Choice Collection Engraved from Pictures of Acknowledged Excellence, Beauty, & Variety, Painted by Esteemed Masters of All Ages and Countries'.
Whitman 428a, but this state, with different plate number and lacking the publication line, not listed.
[Ref: 46349] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Frontespizio della Istoria Romana incisa all'acqua Forte, da Bartolomeo Pinelli Romano 1818. In mezzo alle rovine del Foro, Roma mi apparve nella sua maestrosa dignità, e grandezza.
Pinelli inv. e inc.
[Rome, 1819.]
Etching. 315 x 425mm (12½ x 16¾"), with large margins.
The artist, Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835), stands in the Roman Forum, with a figure of Rome holding a shield decorated with Romulus and Remus sucking the she-wolf. This was the frontispiece to Pinelli's series of 100 plates illustrating the the history of Republican Rome, as told in Charles Rollin's 'Istoria Romana'.
[Ref: 62145] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Piazza of St John de Lateran of the Cardinals College of the Holy Stairs in the Cty of Rome.
Parr sculp.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Copper engraving with large margins. 195 x 250mm, 7¾ x 9¾.
Piazza San Giovanni, with the 14th century BC Egyptian obelisk placed there by Pope Sistus V in 1588.
[Ref: 26273] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Ancient Temple of Minerva Medica, at Rome; Built by Augustus Caesar.
Busiri del: T. Smith pin: F. Vivares sculp:
Publish'd persuant to an Act of Parliament 15 July 1746.
Etching. 390 x 540mm (15¼ x 21¼") large margins. Repaired tears.
A view of a classical Roman ruin after Thomas Smith of Derby. Although still known as The Temple of Minerva Medica, it is a 4th century nymphaeum, a building devoted to the nymphs, connected to the nearby Aqua Claudia.
[Ref: 55062] £360.00

The Magnificent Buildings of the Piazza Navona at Rome. Shewing ~ Les Batiments Superbes & Fountaines de la Place Navone a Rome. 1. Prince Pantilius Palace, 2. St Agnes Church. 3. St. James Church. 4. the Fountain of Neptune. 5. The fountain of Four Rivulets. 6. Another Fountain answering to that of Neptune.
G. Wouters Cavelier delin. Bowles Sculp.
Printed for Robert Wilkinson in Cornhil & Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London [n.d. c. 1816]
Engraving with fine hand colouring, 280 x 430mm (11 x 17), watermarked '1816'. Repaired tear entering image.
The Piazza Navona, one of Rome's liveliest squares, with fountains by Bernini and his great rival Borromini.
[Ref: 57401] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Ælian Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo, with part of the City of Rome.]
[London, Carington Bowles?, c.1760.]
Engraving with very fine hand colour. Sheet 265 x 420mm (10½ x 16½"). Trimmed close to image, losing title, small tears, laid on album paper.
A general view of Rome, looking up the Tiber past the Ponte Sant'Angelo and Castel Sant'Angelo (the Mausoleum of Hadrian) to the dome of St Peter's Basilica in the distance.
[Ref: 58225] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Forum Trasni or Trajan's Square. Partly taken from ancient Medals [...] M.
Parr Sculp.
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill 1741.
Engraving. 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾"), with large margins.
A reconstruction of the forum, with Trajan's Column. From a series of classical views.
[Ref: 60655] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Arcus Argentariorum] Arch of the Goldsmiths.
H. Abbott del.t et sculp.t. Aquatinted by W. Havell & Son's.
Printed for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, Oct.r 1. 1820.
Fine aquatint, printed in sepia. 345 x 470mm (13½ x 18½"), with large margins, watermarked 'J Whatman 1820'. With a sheet of letterpress description. Uncut. Holes in top margin where previously bound.
The Arcus Argentariorum (Arch of the Money-Changers), probably a monumental gate where the vicus Jugarius entered the Forum Boarium. Published in the Subscription Edition of Henry Abbot's 'Antiquities of Rome; comprising Twenty-Four Select Views of its Principal Ruins... Made in the Year 1818'.
Abbey Travel 179.
[Ref: 61199] £320.00

Arch of Janus.
H. Abbott del.t et sculp.t. Aquatinted by J. Gleadah.
Printed for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, Oct.r 1. 1820.
Fine aquatint, printed in sepia. 345 x 475mm (13½ x 18¾"), with large margins, watermarked 'J Whatman 1820'. With a sheet of letterpress description. Uncut. Holes in top margin where previously bound.
The Arch of Janus, a tetrapylon triumphal arch of the edge of the Forum Boarium. Published in the Subscription Edition of Henry Abbot's 'Antiquities of Rome; comprising Twenty-Four Select Views of its Principal Ruins... Made in the Year 1818'.
Abbey Travel 179.
[Ref: 61200] £320.00

The Pyramid of Caius Cestius.
H. Abbott del.t et sculp.t. Aquatinted by R. Reeve.
Printed for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, Nov.r 1. 1820.
Fine aquatint, printed in sepia. 470 x 345mm (18½ x 13½), with large margins, watermarked 'J Whatman 1820'. With a sheet of letterpress description. Small smudges in unprinted area of plate on left. Uncut. Holes in right margin where previously bound.
The tomb of magistrate Gaius Cestius Epulo, built c. 15BC and incorporated into the Aurelian Walls between 271 and 275. Published in the Subscription Edition of Henry Abbot's 'Antiquities of Rome; comprising Twenty-Four Select Views of its Principal Ruins... Made in the Year 1818'.
Abbey Travel 179.
[Ref: 61201] £360.00

[Temple of Venus & Roma] Temple of the Sun & Moon.
H. Abbott del.t et sculp.t. Aquatinted by J. Gleadah.
Printed for the Author, March 1. 1820.
Fine aquatint, printed in sepia. 335 x 455mm (13¼ x 18"), with large margins, watermarked 'J Whatman 1820'. With a sheet of letterpress description. Uncut. Holes in top margin where previously bound.
The ruins of the Temple of Venus & Roma, showing its coffered vaulted ceiling. Behind is the church of St Maria Nuova. Published in the Subscription Edition of Henry Abbot's 'Antiquities of Rome; comprising Twenty-Four Select Views of its Principal Ruins... Made in the Year 1818'.
Abbey Travel 179.
[Ref: 61202] £320.00

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