Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
The House with the Inscription
c. 1735-1746
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 308 x 222 mm. (12 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.)
Plate: 300 x 217 mm. (11 13/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From the series "Views, Some Based on Real Places, Some Imagined (Vedute, Altre prese da i luoghi, altre ideate)"
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1934.52.12
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Inscribed: In trompe-l'oeil along facade of house at left: "MDCCXLI.A.C."
Markings: CM: verso: Riggs
Artist
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
Italian, 1697-1768
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