Veues de Rome et des environs
Veues de Rome et des environs is a set of 1680 copper-engraved views of Rome and its surroundings, issued in Paris by the Perelle family of engravers for a collector's audience, and held by Heidelberg University Library. The four pictures show formal Roman sites: a fountain-lined terrace with stairs, the Castel Sant'Angelo above a bridge, a garden parterre with a grotto, and St Peter's Square with its colonnade and obelisk, all rendered in fine linear hatching with small figures for scale that a designer could borrow for architectural perspective and crowd staging.
