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Title: Rome, Italy, 1748 (Image 4 of 6) (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2015-04
  • Coverage: 1748

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Alla Santitta di Nosto Signore Papa Benedetto XIV la nuova topografia di Roma, ossequiosamente offerisce e dedica l'umilissimo servo Giambattista Nolli Comasco; si stampa in Roma con Privil. del Som.o Pontefice e licenza de Superioriori; Rocco Pazzi Romano Pietro Campana da Soriano e Carlo Nolli inc.; Stefano Pozzi Pit. inv. e delin. It was published by Giambattista Nolli in 1748. Scale [ca. 1:3,000]. This layer is image 4 of 6 total images of the six sheet source map, representing the southwest portion of the map. Covers Rome, Italy and Vatican City.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'European Datum 1950 UTM Zone 33N' coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, land cover, plazas, city walls, gates, and fortifications, selected buildings, names of selected landowners, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes many engravings.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

Subjects

  • Transportation
  • Italy
  • Rome
  • Vatican City
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Land use
  • Landforms
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • Bodies of water
  • Real property
  • Landowners
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (12.449703, 12.48066, 41.891042, 41.864674)
  • Geometry: BBOX (12.449703, 12.48066, 41.891042, 41.864674)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Nolli, Giambattista, ca. 1692-1756., Campana, Pietro, 1725 or 1727-ca. 1765., Nolli, Carlo, d. ca. 1770., Pozzi, Stefano, 1699-1768. Rome, Italy, 1748 (Image 4 of 6) (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g6714-r7-1748-n6-sh4

Format

GeoTIFF