Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
Title Plate
c. 1735-1746
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 398 x 541 mm. (15 11/16 x 21 5/16 in.)
Plate: 299 x 430 mm. (11 3/4 x 16 15/16 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
1934.52.1
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Elizabeth Rodini, BMA, "The City Real and Ideal," 11 October 2006 - 11 March 2007, cat. 14.
Elizabeth Rodini, BMA, "The City Real and Ideal," 11 October 2006 - 11 March 2007, cat. 14.
Inscribed: At center, in plate: "VEDUTE / Altre prese da i Luoghi altre ideate / DA ANTONIO CANAL / e da esso intagliate poste in prospetiva / umiliate / All' ill.mo Signor / GIUSEPPE SMITH / Console di S. M. Britanica appresso la Ser.ma / Repubblica di Venezia . / In segno di stima ed ossequio"
Markings: CM: verso: Riggs
Artist
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
Italian, 1697-1768
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