Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606-1688

Title:

Romae antiquae et novae theatrum, sive, Genuina ac vera urbis, juxta varios ejusdem status, delineatio topographica : unà cum primariis illius aedificiis ac monumentis, veluti templis, simulacris, circis, campis, theatris, arcubus, porticibus, columnis, statuis & sepulcris antiquis, praecipuè verò modernis templis, palatiis & aedificiis, nonaginta tabulis aeneis exhibitis & secundùm nobilioris architecturae simulac perspectivae regulas extructis, ruinisq́ue illustrioribus / curante Joachimo à Sandrart ...

Alternate Title(s):

Genuina ac vera urbis, juxta varios ejusdem status, delineatio topographica

Published / Created:

Norimbergae : Typis Christiani Sigismundi Frobergii, sumtibus autoris, anno Christi 1684.

Physical Description:

[2], 15, [1] pages, [108] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 40 cm (folio)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7420 .S26d+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Largely copied, without acknowledgement, from Falda's Palazzi di Roma. See: British Architectural Library.

The added engraved title (or frontispiece) includes the title in Latin and German. Plates are numbered I-XXXXXVIIII, with 12 additional plates whose numbers are distinguished from those of the main sequence by 1-3 asterisks. Of the total of 71 prints, 36 are printed across facing leaves; plate [28], a bird's-eye view of modern Rome, is double sheet. Some plates signed by etchers Johann Azelt, Johann Franck, Johann Meyer, and Johann Jakob von Sandrart.

Signatures: [pi]1 A-B⁴.

British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840, 2894

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 3872

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts (VD 17), 23:300768B

BAC N7420 .S26d+: Bound in later red leather, stamped in gold on front covers with armorial of Mark Masterman Sykes, baronet, of Sledmere, beneath the initials S.M.M. Armorial bookplates: John, Duke of Bedford; "Du cabinet de [blank]". Has bound with it: Palatiorum Romanorum à celeberrimis sui aevi architectis erectorum pars prima[-tertia] (Norimbergae : Sumptibus Ioh. Iacobi de Sandrart, [1694]).

Subject Terms:

Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800. | Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800. | Sykes, Mark Masterman, Sir, 1771–1823 -- Binding. | Bedford, John, Duke of -- Bookplate. | Oratorians -- Italy -- Naples -- Inscription.

Form/Genre:

Etchings. | Armorial bindings. | Booksellers' labels (Provenance) -- Libri rari Fiametta soave, Roma.

Contributors:

Falda, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1640–1678. | Azelt, Johann, 1654– engraver. | Franck, Johann, active 1659–1690, engraver. | Meyer, Johann, 1655– engraver. | Sandrart, Johann Jakob von, 1655–1698, engraver. | Frobergius, Christianus Sigismundus, 1650–approximately 1723, printer.