Chatelain's Map of Ancient Rome Printed Area Measurement_37 x 45 cm

Chatelain's Map of Ancient Rome Printed Area Measurement_37 x 45 cmPlan Des Antiquitez De Rome, Reprsentes Et Distingues Suivant La Situation De Chacun De Ses Anciens Monuments Roma Vetus This map of Rome is an early modern conception of the city in its ancient form, derived from Ambrogio Brambillas 1582 map and published in Chatelains encyclopaedic Atlas Historique. Chatelain's imaginative reconstruction ignores the private or domestic aspect of Rome to focus entirely on the principal public buildings and monuments.

a 170 page hardback ‘travelogue for the short time visitor’ published by Cassell

and this series of miniature maps rivalled and replaced Philip Galle’s earlier versions

and religion

Published a decade before the railway maps and guides which made him a household name

Large engraved map of Europe and the First French Empire in 6 sheets

A few marginal pencilled annotations are probably in his hand

than all the histories of his predecessors put together

engraved by Benjamin Cole

one of just 30 people excluded from William III’s 1690 Act of Grace)

In 1830 John Loudon Macadam ‘the celebrated maker of roads’ (p

but it is possible that this curious map was not included in all copies

the Ligurian Republic