Giuseppe Vasi 1710-1782

Etchings, 1759, 35 plates from the ninth series, lacking title page and ten plates (S. 262, 276-277, 284, 288, 294, 300, 301, 304-5), good impressions on laid paper, S. 297 and 302 printed in text, occasional thin spots otherwise in generally good condition (unexamined out of frames)

The complete set was published by Vasi from 1747 to 1761. Since the set was published just before the wave of neoclassicism transformed the city, the plates (grouped by subject: churches, gates, bridges, palaces, villas), essentially depicts the Baroque Rome. The present series published in 1759 mainly illustrates colleges, hospitals and many other pious buildings. Vasi was 'an important contributor to European perceptions of contemporary Rome, and the development of the techniques and subtleties of intaglio printmaking.' (Riba)