Lot 473
Jewish Ghetto in Rome - Etching, 1752
Piazza Giudia [Jews' Square], etching by Giuseppe Vasi. [Rome, 1752].
Etching depicting the Jewish Ghetto in Rome and its inhabitants. Description below the plate, with references to several buildings and streets marked in numbers on the etching (gate of the Ghetto, the gallows, "house with an ancient inscription" [Casa di Lorenzo Manilio], and more).
From the book "Delle Magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna", vol. II (Rome, 1752).
Etching: 30X21 cm, leaf: 42.5X29.5 cm. Significant foxing at margins of leaf and a damp-stain at left margins. Some creases and tears at margins.
