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245 0 4 $a Les Plus Beaux Monuments De Rome Ancienne. Ou Recueil Des Plus Beaux Morceaux De L'Antiquité Romaine Qui Existent Encore: Dessinés Par Monsieur Barbault Peintre Ancien Pensionnaire Du Roy A Rome, Et Gravés En 128 Planches Avec Leur Explication.
246 3 3 $a Half-title: Monuments de Rome Ancienne
246 3 0 $a Recueïl Des Plus Beaux Morceaux De L'Antiquité Romaine
260 # # $a A Rome: $b Chez Bouchard & Gravier Libraires françois rüe du Cours près de Saint Marcel. $c M.DCC.LXI. De L'Imprimerie De Komarek. Avec Permission Des Superieurs. $c [1761]
300 # # $a viii, 90 p., 73 pl.: $b illus.; $c 511mm. (Folio).
500 # # $a Of the 73 numbered leaves of plates 29 carry full-page impressions, and 44 two half-page impressions each. (The latter generally show an architectural ruin and a smaller sculptural fragment below.) These, with the nine tail-pieces, dedication head-piece and title-page vignette, bring the total number of coppers up to 128 as announced on the title page.
505 0 # $a [T.p., dedic.] - Préface; Imprimatur - [Plates, with explanatory texts] - Table De Ce Qui Est Contenu Dans Cet Ouvrage.
508 # # $a Most plates and vignettes are signed as drawn by Barbault (83 coppers), Carlo Nolli (1) or L. Bufalino (1), and engraved by Barbault (56), Domenico Montagu (52), G. Bouchard (6) or Freicenet (4). A few vignettes are reminiscent of views by Piranesi, with whom Barbault earlier collaborated.

The book is dedicated by the publishers to Jean François Joseph de Rochechouart, Bishop of Laon (afterwards Cardinal), French ambassador to the Holy See from 1758 to 1762.
510 4 # $a National Gallery (Washington), Mark J. Millard Architectural, IV (2000), 13; Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library ... Early printed books, 1 (1994), no. 184; Johns Hopkins University, The Fowler Architectural Collection (1961), no. 37, p.29.

A background study is O. Michel, Vivre et peindre à Rome au XVIIIe siècle (1996).
520 2 # $a With this book Barbault established himself as a vedutista worthy to rival his contemporaries Vasi and Piranesi.

The plates of views fall into the following groups: temples, pl.1-15; arches, 16-21; theatres, 22-27; columns and obelisks, 28-31; Portico of Octavia and Palace of Caesars, 32-33; baths and aqueducts, 34-44; tombs and altars, 45-51; pictures from Herculaneum, 52-54; statues and bas-reliefs, 55-73. Each plate is placed so that it is accompanied by explanatory text - with the exception of plates 55-73, which have no accompanying descriptions.

In 1763 Bouchard et Gravier followed up this work by publishing Barbault's Les Plus Beaux Edifices De Rome Moderne.
533 # # $n A copy was published on microfilm (London: World Microfilms Publications, 1975-77) (RIBA Rare Books Collection Sect. 4, reel 1, no.3).
561 # # $a Acquired by 1802. Recorded in Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
562 # # $a Imperfect: lacks the half-title.
563 # # $a 20th-century half calf in 18th-century style, with marbled-paper boards; pink morocco spine-label and 'R.A.' gilt-stamped on spine.
600 1 4 $a Barbault
653 # # $a Antiquities, Roman - Architecture, Roman - Public buildings - Monuments - Bas-reliefs - Italy - Rome
655 # 4 $a Views - Vedute - City views - Italy - 18th century
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - Italy - 18th century
700 1 # $a Barbault, Jean $e draughtsman $e source artist $e engraver
700 1 # $a Bouchard, Giovanni $e publisher $e bookseller
700 1 # $a Gravier, Jean $e publisher $e bookseller
700 1 # $a Komarek, Bizzarini $e printer
700 1 # $a Montagu, Domenico $e engraver
700 1 # $a Rochechouart De Faudoas, Jean François Joseph $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Nolli $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Freicenet $e engraver
710 2 # $a Bouchard et Gravier $e publisher $e bookseller
852 8 # $d 1802: 13-0-11; 1821: 18-0-11.