Giovan Battista Falda Prints and Multiples

A very good, richly-inked impression of this etching with strong contrasts and no sign of wear. Anchor or fleur-de-lys in a double circle watermark. From "Prospectus locorum urbis Ro...

A charming scene with romping dogs and spectators watching the cascading water play a trick on an unsuspecting man who is sprayed as he descends the steps, ...

A very interesting and important Engraving, framed between two glasses and two colors natural and gilded wood frame of the Plan of the palace of Caprarola that inspired the American ...

Chiesa dedicata a Sant’Ignatio is a wonderful black and white etching on cream-colored paper realized in the second half of the XVII century by Giovanbattista Falda. Signed on plate on the lower left margin "Giò Batta...

Rome: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, 1625. Etching and engraving on cream laid paper, 8 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches (222 x 286 mm), full margins. In good condition with some light yellow discoloration in the margins and on the verso, the image area remains clean and bright. The inscription in the lower margin reads Paulus Quintus Pont. Maxim ... anno DNI MDCXII Pontif.s sui Septimo' and in the margin 'Fontana e castello dell'acqua Paola a S.Pietro Montorio sul Gianicolo, condotta da Paolo V, vicino a Bracciano, Architett.a di Giovanni Fontana', and signed at left 'G.B.Falda del. et inc.' and at right 'G.Iac.Rossi le stampa in Roma alla pace co priv. del SP', and the number '11' in the lower right corner. Printed in 1691. [Bartsch/Le Pientre graveur XXI.241.13] Book I, plate 11: Fountain of San Pietro in Montorio, from "Le fontane delle ville di Frascati nel Tusculano con li loro prospetti" ("The fountains of the Villas of Frascati in Tusculano and their prospects"); a set of four books on fountains published by Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627–1691), after Giovanni Francesco Venturini (active ca. 1650–1700) and Giovanni Battista Falda...

Chiesa dedicata a S. Gregorio Papa de Monaci Camaldolesi sul' Monte Celio is an etching realized in the Late 17th Century by Giovan Battista Falda. good condition except for some fo...

Altra veduta della Chiesa di S. Ignatio de Papa della Compa di Giesu nel Rione della Pigna is an etching realized in the Late 17th Century by Giovan Battista Falda. Good condition e...

Chiesa di Sant'Athanagio e Collegio della Natione de' Greci is a wonderful black and white etching on cream-colored paper realized in the second half of the XVII century by Giovanni Battista Falda. Signed on plate on the lower left margin "Giò Batta Falda dis. et fece". Title etched on plate at the center, with a urbanistic caption and a dedication to "Gio. Iacomo Rossi" on plate on the right corner of the lower margin. In excellent conditions, except for the wavy paper. An ivory-colored cardboard passepartout is included (34 x 49 cm). A beautiful urban landscape of Rome with full blacks and precise lines, to admire a disappeared view of the eternal city. Giovanni Battista Falda (Valduggia, 1643 - Rome, 1678) was an Italian engraver, who documented architectures and urban planning in Rome in the second half of the seventeenth century. Born in the province of Vercelli, he soon showed a passion for drawing. He was thus placed in the workshop of a local painter, and then, at the age of 14, sent to Rome to stay at his uncle's, who spoke about him to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. He also studied with Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi. From De Rossi, the adolescent...

Original etching by G.B. Falda. Very good conditions. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an artist who...

Original etching by G.B. Falda. Very good conditions. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an artist who...