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Canaletto

View of a Town with a Bishop's Tomb, c. 1740

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 30.2 x 30.2 cm (11 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)

sheet: 31 x 31.2 cm (12 3/16 x 12 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jacob Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Bromberg 1993, no. 16, state ii/ii

Accession Number

2002.98.9

Artists / Makers

Canaletto (artist) Venetian, 1697 - 1768

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: A. Canal. f.

Provenance

Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob

Exhibition History

2002: An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, as View of a Town with a Bishop's Tomb.

Bibliography

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.

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.

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