La ville de Rome, ou, Description abrégée de cette superbe ville : divisée en quatre volumes : et ornée de 425 planches en taille douce
A late eighteenth-century French guidebook to Rome in four volumes, written by Dominique Magnan and printed in Rome in 1778 for travellers and collectors of antiquities. Its plates are engraved reproductions of Roman sculpture, including relief panels showing armoured soldiers, horses and battle scenes, and mythological figures in classical drapery. A designer might take from them the crowded, rhythmic layouts of relief friezes and the restrained hatched line of eighteenth-century engraving.
