Degli edificj antichi e moderni di Roma; vedute in contorno
An 1817 Roman publication of outline views of ancient and modern buildings in Rome, drawn by Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1766-1839) and issued for an architecture readership. The pictures are plain pen-and-line views of ruined arches, gateways, walls and villas set in open ground, with small figures for scale; a designer could take from them the simple contour drawing method, with clean outlines, minimal shading and strong horizontal layering of ruins against sky and fields.
