Descrizione Del Colosseo Romano, Del Panteo E Del Tempio Vaticano
A 1763 Italian guidebook by Giuseppe Maria Ercolani describing the Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Vatican temple in Rome, written for travellers and readers of antiquities. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments, mostly winged female heads set within scrolling acanthus, garlands and drapery, which a designer could adapt for cartouches, title panels or decorative borders.


























