FALDA - BERNINI - DE ROSSI. La Basilica Vaticana. Large... Lot 46

FALDA - BERNINI - DE ROSSI. La Basilica Vaticana. Large sheet, etching, mm. 480x623, wide margins. At the bottom the title, device, with date and caption and dedication. At the bottom right the signature of the publisher "Gio. Battista Falda dis. et fece" on the left "Architettura del Cavalier Gio. Lorenzo Bernino." Very well printed on stiff paper, watermark with double circle and lily, slight repaired marginal tears, marinal loss, good specimen. Beautiful and rare engraving about 1680. It depicts Piazza San Pietro in the Vatican, without pavement, that is to say without Bernini's sampietrini, positioned on the Piazza only in 1725. Engraved by Giovanni Battista Falda engraver very well known in Rome for very many drawings and engravings of his churches, gardens, of fountains and public buildings, executed with a great knowledge of perspective and rich in many characters.