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Our selection now spreads over seven pages, and includes eight
maps and over seventy views.
The views are by a variety of noted artists of the first half
of the nineteenth century, amongst them Thomas Allom, John Duffield Harding, William
Leighton Leitch, Samuel Prout, and Clarkson Stanfield. Most are taken from Thomas
Roscoe’s The Tourist in Italy, published in 1831-1832 (although
some of our originals are dated slightly earlier than this) and The Shores
and Islands of the Mediterranean, published c. 1840. As well as being delightful
images, they provide us with an invaluable pictorial record of pre-Risorgimento
Italy.
The great cathedral of Palermo, by William Leitch
We have now expanded our range of maps to include town plans of
Pompeii, Modern Rome and Parma originally published in the 1830s by the Society
for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, later 19th century town plans of Genoa,
Turin and Verona, and a lovely 1745 copper-engraved plan of Messina, from Rapin’s
History of England.
Unless otherwise stated, all maps are reproduced on heavyweight
A3 Super paper (13"x19"/329mm x 483mm), and views on A4, with an approximate
image size of between 7"x5" and 8"x6" (175mm x 125mm-200mm
x 150mm).
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