Fontana su la Piazza de SS. Mattei (Fountain in the Piazza Mattei), from Le Fontane di Roma (Roman Fountains)
Giovanni Battista Falda, Italian, 1640/43 - 1678
1677
Engraving on laid paper
Plate: 8 7/16 × 11 5/16 in. (21.4 × 28.7 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 12 13/16 in. (23.5 × 32.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Professor Harry E. Burton, Class of 1908H
PR.945.44
Publisher
Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: G.B. Falda del. et inc.; inscribed, in plate, lower center: FONTANA SV LA PIAZZA DE SS.ri [r in superscript] MATTEI, / nel Rione di S. Angelo Architect.a [a in superscript] di Giacomo della Porta; inscribed, in plate, lower right: G.Iac. Rossi le stampa in Roma alla Pace co Priu. del. S. Pont.
Course History
ARTH 17, Italian Renaissance Architecture: Issues and Approaches, Lauren Jacobi, Winter 2013
Provenance
Professor Harry Edwin Burton (1868-1945); given to present collection, 1945.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch vol. 47: 25 (242)
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