Wilhelm Friedrich GMELIN (Badenweiler 1745 or 1760 - Rome 1820 or 21) "Der Wasserfall des Velino bei Terni" (the Velino waterfall in Terni) Original etching signed and dated in plate in the lower center "In Rom von WFGmelin 1795 "(Oddly the British Museum cataloging shows the date of 1793). Nice copy in the second state of two with the author's title and wording, in a coeval edition, printed on uncoated paper, complete with the imprint of the plate and with margins of about one centimeter, with a trace of burnishing on the whole high edge and some other small defects but overall in good general condition. Friedrich Gmelin was a highly esteemed and sought after artist in the environment of neoclassical Rome, had relations with Goethe and his circle of intellectuals, met and visited Philipp Hackert in Naples who commissioned him the graphic translation of some of his paintings, founded and managed a excellent publishing company whose matrices after his death were purchased for a large sum from the chalcography chamber. Bibliography: Benezit "Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Gaveurs" Paris 1976 vol.5 p. 71. Heller-Andresen "Handbuch fur Kupferstichsammler" Leipzig 1850 p. 271. Nagler "Neues Allgemeines Kunstler Lexicon" Leipzig sd vol.V pag .530 and 531. Thieme - Becker "Allgemeines Lexicon der bildenden Kunstler" Leipzig, sd vol. XIV pag.273. Measurements in mm: 610ca x 411ca