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Choix des plus célèbres maisons de plaisance de Rome et de ses environs

by: Percier, Charles, 1764-1838

Publication date: 1809

Topics: Architecture, Domestic -- Italy -- Rome, Landscape architecture -- Italy -- Rome, Gardens -- Italy -- Rome, Architecture, Renaissance -- Italy -- Rome, Palaces -- Italy -- Rome, Architecture domestique -- Italie -- Rome, Maisons de campagnes -- Rome, Italie, Maisons de banlieue -- Rome, Italie, Palaces, Buildings, Architecture, Renaissance, Architecture, Domestic, Gardens, Landscape architecture, Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc, Italy -- Rome, Houses Palaces Roman architecture Italy Rome

Publisher: A Paris : De l'imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Volume: c.1

72 p., 75 [i.e. 77] leaves of plates : 58 cm

[4], 72 pages, 75 [i.e. 77] leaves of plates : 58 cm

Originally issued in 12 parts of 600 copies each, from 1809 to 1813. Bibliographie de l'empire français, vol. 2 (1813) contains entries for the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth installments. Brunet gives dates as 1809-13

On verso of half-title page: Se vend à Paris, chez les auteurs, au Louvre, P. Didot l'aîné, imprimeur, rue du Pont de Lodi, et les principaux libraires

There is a plate numbered "39 bis" between plates 42 and 43, and one unnumbered plate (captioned "Villa d'Est a Tivoli") before plate 58. The latter may be found as a frontispiece in some copies. "Planche XL bis" found in the plate listings is not a separate plate; its content comprises the lower part of plate 40

Headpieces and tailpieces depict fragments of sculpture from the Villa Albani

Discours préliminaire -- Villa Albani -- Villa Medici -- Villa Panfili -- Villa Barberini -- Villa Borghese -- Villa Mattei -- Villla [i.e. Villa] Farnesiana -- Villa Negroni -- Casino del Papa, ou villa Pia -- Villa Madama -- Villa Sacchetti -- Villa Altieri -- Villa di Papa Giulio -- Villa Bolognetti -- Villa Monte Dragone -- Villa Taverna -- Villa Muti -- Villa d'Este -- Casino Colonna -- Villa Aldobrandini -- Villa Lanti -- Villa Giustiniani -- Villa et palazzo di Caprarola -- Palazzuolo di Caprarola -- Table des architectes et des artistes -- Table des planches