Londinum Londinum Urbs Praecipua Regni Angliae.
[Italy,
c1687-1730].
Copper engraving.
Image: 395 by 510mm (15.5 by 20 inches). Sheet: 430 by 555mm (17 by 21.75 inches).
12426
notes:
A Latin version of Pierre Aveline's view of London. Although the title cartouche has been changed, the engraver has not changed the tower of St Paul's Cathedral to its post-Fire state. Although it is intended to represent contemporary, eighteenth century London, it still shows the Elizabethan theatres in Bankside.
Scouloudi records this as a variant of the view published by Antoine Aveline (1691-1743) in the early eighteenth century, but she does not record the c...
Scouloudi records this as a variant of the view published by Antoine Aveline (1691-1743) in the early eighteenth century, but she does not record the c...
bibliography:
Scouloudi pp.59-60.
provenance:
From Benedetto Marzolla’s “Atlante geografico”
Speed’s map of Italy
Map of Japan published in Dufour’s ‘Atlas Populaire’
Views of Kyoto
Miniature map of Japan
Italian map of Japan after Thomas Salmon
Produced for an unfinished atlas, with a rare proof state 

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