ROME - DU PERAC, Stefano (ca.1525-1604). Urbis Romae sciographia ex antiquis monumentis accuratiss delineata . Rome: Franciscus Villamoena, dated 1574 but [ca. 1595]. Etched map of ancient Rome on 8 sheets, joined, overall 1030 x 1550mm. (Each sheet backed on blue paper and joined with linen, several old repaired tears, light browning and staining). An unrecorded example, one of two now known, of the earliest surviving issue of Du Perac's important map of ancient Rome. Frutaz XXII, refers to the 1574 issue, of which no copy was known at that time, only by reference to the Rossi reissue. Frutaz states that Huelsen described a unique example of the 1574 issue with the Franciscus Villamena imprint in the map room British Museum (still present). However as Villamena (1565-1624), who was born in Assisi in 1565 did not come to Rome until 1585-1590, this state of the map must date from the late 16th century. Villamena, according to Baglione, came to Rome in the papacy of Sixtus V (1585-1590), studied under Cornelis Cort and worked for Agostino Carracci His first dated engravings illustrate Campani's Pompa Funerale of Sixtus, 1591. He produced many etchings but principally portraits and religious subjects. Du Perac, a Frenchman, worked in Rome from 1559-1582; he became architect of the Papal Conclave in 1572. Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi reissued the map of Rome in 1649 and 1691, and the plates were restruck by the Calcografia Camerale. Included with this lot is a restrike of the Calcografia issue, on wove paper, 8 sheets, each with full margins. (9)
ROME - DU PERAC, Stefano (ca.1525-1604). Urbis Romae sciographia ex antiquis monumentis accuratiss delineata . Rome: Franciscus Villamoena, dated 1574 but [ca. 1595]. Etched map of ancient Rome on 8 sheets, joined, overall 1030 x 1550mm. (Each sheet backed on blue paper and joined with linen, several old repaired tears, light browning and staining). An unrecorded example, one of two now known, of the earliest surviving issue of Du Perac's important map of ancient Rome. Frutaz XXII, refers to the 1574 issue, of which no copy was known at that time, only by reference to the Rossi reissue. Frutaz states that Huelsen described a unique example of the 1574 issue with the Franciscus Villamena imprint in the map room British Museum (still present). However as Villamena (1565-1624), who was born in Assisi in 1565 did not come to Rome until 1585-1590, this state of the map must date from the late 16th century. Villamena, according to Baglione, came to Rome in the papacy of Sixtus V (1585-1590), studied under Cornelis Cort and worked for Agostino Carracci His first dated engravings illustrate Campani's Pompa Funerale of Sixtus, 1591. He produced many etchings but principally portraits and religious subjects. Du Perac, a Frenchman, worked in Rome from 1559-1582; he became architect of the Papal Conclave in 1572. Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi reissued the map of Rome in 1649 and 1691, and the plates were restruck by the Calcografia Camerale. Included with this lot is a restrike of the Calcografia issue, on wove paper, 8 sheets, each with full margins. (9)
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