The Canal dei Marani, Where State Inquisitors Had Them Drowned, 1797

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series Title

I Pozzi e i Piombi di Venezia (The Wells and Leads of Venice) [plate 5]

Medium

etching and aquatint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.6 × 30.3 cm (9 5/16 × 11 15/16 in.)

sheet: 28.1 × 35 cm (11 1/16 × 13 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2019.137.5

Artists / Makers

Giovanni De Pian (artist) Italian, 1764 - 1800

Francesco Galimberti (artist after) Italian, 1755 - 1803

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, below image, at left: Galliberti inv.; in plate, below image, at right: de Pian inc.; in plate, below image, at center: Canale dei Maranni, dove per li fu Inquisitori di Stato si facevano annegare li rei / No. 5; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 582;by later hand, upper left verso in pen and black ink: 5 [in circle]; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: Pian De Gio; C34

Provenance

(La Portantina di Mattia Jona, Milan); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

La Portantina di Mattia Jona

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 235, fig. 2.