A Plan of Rome… / La Topographia di Roma da G. B. Nolli… / Plan de Rome...
| Reference: | S41655 |
| Author | John Rocque |
| Year: | 1750 |
| Zone: | Rome |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 570 x 465 mm |
€550.00
| Reference: | S41655 |
| Author | John Rocque |
| Year: | 1750 |
| Zone: | Rome |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 570 x 465 mm |
€550.00
Description
Vertical projection map of Rome, oriented with the north at the top.
Published in 1750 by John Roque, from the earlier plan by Goivanni Battista Noli published in 1748 (These dates are printed on the map).
As announced in the title (also repeated in Italian and French), this is a direct derivation of the small map of Nolli that the author wanted to bring back to the scale in which he had already published the map of the city of London. At the bottom left index of the most remarkable fabrications contained in the plan with 170 entries divided into six columns. Bottom right dedication to Sir. Bouchier Wrey. The architectural buildings are in black and the rest of the blocks are in diagonal hatching. Bottom left the name of the engraver R. Benning sc. The same plan was printed in 1773 by Sawyer (see Marigliani p. 274).
Etching, finely colored by hand, in good condition. Not common.
Literature
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C. Marigliani, "Le Piante di Roma delle collezioni private", n. 192; Scaccia Scarafoni, "Le Piante di Roma", n. 230.
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Rocque was born in France in about 1704, one of four children of a Huguenot family who subsequently fled first to Geneva, and then, probably in 1709, to England. He became a godfather in 1728, which suggests he was at least twenty-one years old by that time.
In addition to his work as surveyor and mapmaker, Rocque was an engraver and map-seller. He was also involved in some way in gardening as a young man, living with his brother Bartholomew, who was a landscape gardener, and producing plans for parterres, perhaps recording pre-existing designs, but few details of this work are known. Rocque produced engraved plans of the gardens at Wrest Park (1735), Claremont (1738), Charles Hamilton's naturalistic landscape garden at Painshill Park, Surrey (1744), Wanstead House (1745) and Wilton House (1746).
Rocque is now remembered principally for his Map of London. He began work on this in 1737 and it was published in 24 printed sheets in 1746. It was by far the most detailed map of London published up to that time, and remains an important historical resource.
The map of London and his other maps brought him an appointment as cartographer to Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1751. A fire in 1750 destroyed his premises and stock, but by 1753 he was employing ten draughtsmen, and The Small British Atlas: Being a New set of Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales appeared. There was a second edition in 1762.
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Literature
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C. Marigliani, "Le Piante di Roma delle collezioni private", n. 192; Scaccia Scarafoni, "Le Piante di Roma", n. 230.
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Rocque was born in France in about 1704, one of four children of a Huguenot family who subsequently fled first to Geneva, and then, probably in 1709, to England. He became a godfather in 1728, which suggests he was at least twenty-one years old by that time.
In addition to his work as surveyor and mapmaker, Rocque was an engraver and map-seller. He was also involved in some way in gardening as a young man, living with his brother Bartholomew, who was a landscape gardener, and producing plans for parterres, perhaps recording pre-existing designs, but few details of this work are known. Rocque produced engraved plans of the gardens at Wrest Park (1735), Claremont (1738), Charles Hamilton's naturalistic landscape garden at Painshill Park, Surrey (1744), Wanstead House (1745) and Wilton House (1746).
Rocque is now remembered principally for his Map of London. He began work on this in 1737 and it was published in 24 printed sheets in 1746. It was by far the most detailed map of London published up to that time, and remains an important historical resource.
The map of London and his other maps brought him an appointment as cartographer to Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1751. A fire in 1750 destroyed his premises and stock, but by 1753 he was employing ten draughtsmen, and The Small British Atlas: Being a New set of Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales appeared. There was a second edition in 1762.
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