Il Regal Museo borbonico
Il Regal Museo borbonico is a Neapolitan guidebook to the Real Museo borbonico, the royal museum in Naples, written by Giovambatista Finati and printed by Giovanni de Bonis in 1819 for visitors and collectors. Its single picture is a ground-floor plan of the museum building, showing a symmetrical grid of galleries, courtyards and a domed central hall with a scale bar along the foot. A designer could take from it the clarity of an architectural plan drawn in dark line on cream paper, with labelled rooms and a strong axis.
