Raccolta di vedute del regno di Napoli e suoi contorni disegnate al vero, Rome, Presso Po. D'Atri Via del Corso no142, 1850.
This edition contains two different albums. The first album includes fifty-one engravings with views of Naples and its wider environs in the mid-nineteenth century. Most of the drawings were made by G.B. Costa, Tommasso Dessonlavy, Silvestro Bossi and Fransesco Santarelli, and were engraved by Pietro Parboni. The second album includes fifty-nine engravings, which, although numbered, are not placed in order and represent monuments of Rome in the mid-nineteenth century. The captions are in Italian and French.
Written by Ioli Vingopoulou
Subjects (31)
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View of Naples, incorporating allegorical mentions to its history.
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Site of Vergil's tomb, according to tradition, on Posilipo Hill.
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View of the Phlegraean Islands in the Gulfof Naples from Posilipo Hills.
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Remains of Roman structure on Posilipo Hill, Naples, traditionally called “Vergil's School”.
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Roman baths in the area of the Gulf of Baiae, traditionally considered as at emple of Venus.
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Lake Averno, traditionally considered as entrance to Hades, near Pozzuoli.
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Lake Averno, traditionally considered as entrance to Hades, near Pozzuoli.