Title
VEDUTA DEL PORTO ED ISOLA DI MALTA CON LA CITTA.
Creator
Pullicino, Alberto, active about 1749, artist.
Publication details
[Florence?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1750 and 1800]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured etching ; platemark 34.8 x 63.5 cm, on sheet 38.6 x 66.7 cm
Description
View of Valletta from Marsamxett Harbour, with three ships sailing under the ensign of the Order of St. John of Malta in the foreground and Fort Manoel and town in the background; within painted frame with inscribed label below.
Place
Valletta (Malta)
Additional information
David Boswell refers to at least two sets of etchings after Alberto Pullicino's views of Malta published by Giacomo Moro and by Giuseppe Bardi in Florence during the second half of the eighteenth century (Boswell, David M., Malta's Canaletto". Alberto Pullicino: a "painter after nature" and his circle', in Apollo, vol. 132, no. 346, pp. 392-398. The original painting is now in the collection of Auckland Art Gallery (accession no. U/341/4)."
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.84.102.k.