Bird's-eye view of Rome, Italy
printed January 1561
Engraving on laid paper
sheet: 42 x 55.3 cm (16 9/16 x 21 3/4 in.)
DR1979:0247
- Sheet is trimmed within plate mark. A printed border is visible on all sides. Sheet has an old vertical fold through c.
inscribed, dated, signed and numbered - by the engraver ? in the plate on the image, t.: "ROMA"; c.l.: "ORIENS"; c.r.: "OCCIDENS"; l.l.: "GAB. PALAEOTIO PONTIFICIO STLITIB IVDICAN / DIS DVODECIMVIRO INTEGERRIMO. / Expressi iandudum mi Rever. Dne meis aeneis tabellis Io. Antonij / Dosij floren. manu delineatis Vrbem Romam Vrbium [...] Vale Barptolaemei Phaletij tui nominis semp / observantissimi memor. Romae Calendis Ianuarij MDLXI. / Sebastianus a Regibus Clodiensis in aere incidebat" [on plaque]; in various locations: with names of the hills, names of towns outside of Rome, names of prominent buildings and numbers and letters to correspond with the legend; and in the plate below the image, l.l. to l.r.: with legend listing gates, bridges, acquaducts, theatres, circuses, monumental arches and columns, temples, and other structures numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.l. and u.r.: "3"
Vatican City; Rome; Italy;
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