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Architectural details illustrating secular and religious buildings constructed in Rome in the 16th and 17th centuries. Excellent examples of contemporary and near-contemporary records of Baroque architecture, these precise engravings show the styles recently constructed.
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Piranesi (1720-78) is renowned for his splendid views of ancient and modern Rome. In a life time dedicated to recording these magnificent buildings and mysterious ruins, he created a prodigious oeuvre of dramatic and moving images. The large scale Vedute di Roma is one of the best known and most extensive series, and the one that established Piranesi's reputation. Where much of his earlier work, namely the Grotteschi and the Carceri, was more fantastic in subject matter, these views were meant to be careful delineations of principal sites. As such, they became very sought after souvenirs for tourists in Rome. As examples of Piranesi's artistic prowess they are powerful renderings of great architectural and sculptural monuments. Piranesi's Roman views are unmistakable and unrivaled architectural prints.
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From a group of handsome architectural studies and details drawn, engraved and published by J.F. de Neufforge. These are classically decorative images of building façades and plans, garden plans, drawings for fountains, gates and other architectural details. Each engraving demonstrates a balance between the simple lines of classic Greco-Roman architecture and the fine ornament and detail prevalent in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These delightful, delicately engraved prints are fine examples of the decoration of the period immediately preceding the American and French Revolutions.
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In the early 1870s, the Palliser brothers, George and Charles, were designing houses for P.T. Barnum in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Expanding their business, and augmenting the already existing market for plan books, they began selling their architectural designs by mail. Working from a group of basic designs, the customer would choose the plan he preferred, and complete a questionnaire, sending along with it the fee for the complete plans. The Pallisers would modify the basic plan to suit the customer's needs, refer it to the customer for comments and changes, then working with those suggestions, submit a complete and detailed building plan. The brothers advertised the availability of their plans through the twenty or so books they published between 1876 and 1908, of which Useful Details was the most popular. These interesting and detailed prints are enduring examples of the ingenuity and foresight of George Palliser and his brother Charles. They are milestone artifacts for the history of American architecture.
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