Description de Rome
Description de Rome is a guidebook to the city published in Rome in 1821 by Angiolo Bonelli and Giovanni Scudellari, with text by the antiquary Carlo Fea and printing by Carlo Mordacchini. The pictures are plates of Roman piazzas, church interiors and monuments, drawn in fine line engraving with architectural perspective. A designer could take from them the orderly, measured city views and the classical columns, arches and coffered vaults of early nineteenth-century Roman architecture.
