An extensive river landscape with a falconer on a horse, a castle in the background; and An extensive river landscape with a hunter shooting ducks, a fortified house in the background

Bazzicaluva studied with Giulio Parigi and specialized in drawing landscapes in pen and ink. He is described by F. Baldinucci as a 'Disegnatore di penna bravissimo' (a most spirited pen draughtsman), and adds that 'in che seguitò interamente la maniera di Giulio [Parigi] di far paesi, de' quali, siccome ancor di quelli del suo maestro, moltì sene vedono nell'altre volte nominati libri del Serinissimo Gran Duca' (in this he followed the landscape manner of Giulio Parigi. Of these [drawings], as for the ones of his master, many can be seen in the aforementioned books of his Highness the Grand Duke [of Tuscany], Notizie de'professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua, Florence, 1792, XII, p. 34). These drawings are today in the Uffizi. Some are illustrated by Marco Chiarini in I disegni italiani de paesaggio dal 1600 al 1750, Treviso, 1972, nos. 38-42. Further drawings are in the Fondation Custodia in Paris, in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York and in Hamburg (C. Thiem, Florentiner Zeichner des Frühbarok, Munich, 1977, nos. 124-6).Ferdinand II de'Medici commissioned Bazzicaluva to engrave a series of prints of 'finished landscapes', whose frontispiece is dated 24 October 1638 (Bartsch, XLIV, 8-17).
These two drawings are probably for a series illustrating the different kinds of hunting, similar to that dedicated to Alessandro Visconti (Le Blanc, 6-12).