Collection: 1709 Overbeek Rome

1709 copperplate engravings from the finest eighteenth-century surveys of ancient Rome — architectural records drawn on-site by artist Van Overbeek, and carried home by Grand Tour travellers as proof of what they'd seen.

Bonaventura van Overbeek (1660-1705) was a Dutch engraver who spent his life drawing the ruins of Ancient Rome. 

Van Overbeek dedicated his work to Queen Anne (r. 1702-1714) but died before its publication. His nephew, Michael van Overbeek, became responsible for its publication in Latin in 1706 and subsequent translation into French in 1709.