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Henri Chatelain: Nouveau Plan dela Ville de Rome Tire Par Ordre du Pape Par Matteo Gregoria de Romans Tres utille Pour Les Voiageurs.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Henri Chatelain  (1684–1743)  wikidata:Q18511671
 
Henri Chatelain
Alternative names
Henri Abraham Chatelain
Description French cartographer
Date of birth/death 22 February 1684 Edit this at Wikidata 9 May 1743 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Amsterdam
Work location
Paris, St. Martins, London, the Hague, Amsterdam
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artist QS:P170,Q18511671
Title
Nouveau Plan dela Ville de Rome Tire Par Ordre du Pape Par Matteo Gregoria de Romans Tres utille Pour Les Voiageurs.
Description
English: A highly detailed 1721 map of Rome and a splendid example of Henri Chatelain's magnificent engraving. Covers the walled center of Rome on either side of the Tiber from the Porta del Popolo to the Porta St. Paola. Shows major streets with important buildings, including the Vatican, Coliseum, Pantheon, and numerous other monuments drawn in profile. The lower quadrants of the map are occupied by extensive tabular data relating to various constructions and the history of Rome. There are ten inset views showing important Roman buildings, these include: St. Pierre, St. Paul, St. Sebastian, St. Bastiane, St. Crois de Jerusalem, St. Lorenzo and St. Marie Maggior, the Palaise du Pape, the Palais de St. Pierre, and St. Marie. A further inset map in the upper left quadrant shows Rome's situation relative to nearby cities and the Mediterranean. Engraved by Henri de Chatelain for volume 1 of the 1721 issue of the Atlas Historique .
Date 1721 (undated)
Dimensions height: 13.5 in (34.2 cm); width: 17.5 in (44.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,13.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,17.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Rome-chatelain-1720
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Chatelain, H. A., Atlas Historique, vol. 1, 1721 edition.

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