View of a Town with a Bishop's Tomb

c. 1735/1746

Canaletto

Artist, Venetian, 1697 - 1768

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 30.1 x 30.6 cm (11 7/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 45.7 x 63.5 cm (18 x 25 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.64.150

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bromberg 1993, no. 16, state ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1906

  • Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906.

1945

  • Pallucchini, Rodolpho and Guarnati, G.F.. Le acqueforti del Canaletto. Venice: Edizioni Daria Guarnati, 1945, no. 13b.

1974

  • Bromberg, Ruth. Canaletto's etchings: a catalogue and study illustrating and describing the known states, including those hitherto unrecorded. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1974, no. 16, ii/ii.

1993

  • Bromberg, Ruth. Canaletto's etchings: revised and enlarged edition of the catalogue raisonné. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1993, no. 16, ii/ii.

2002

  • Montecuccoli degli Erri, Federico. Canaletto incisore. Venice: Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, 2002, no. 14.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: A. Canal f.V.

Watermarks

Coat of arms (Bromberg 1 and 2)

Wikidata ID

Q74070638

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