Title Plate

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: 29.7 x 43.2 cm (11 11/16 x 17 in.)
    sheet: 45.7 x 63.2 cm (18 x 24 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.64.138

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bromberg 1993, no. 1, 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. 1.

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. 1, ii/ii.

1993

  • Bromberg, Ruth. Canaletto's etchings: revised and enlarged edition of the catalogue raisonné. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1993, no. 1, ii/ii.

2002

  • Montecuccoli degli Erri, Federico. Canaletto incisore. Venice: Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, 2002, no. 1.

Inscriptions

across center in plate: VEDUTE / ... / DA / ANTONIO CANAL / ... (7 more lines)

Watermarks

Inverted A (top half of Bromberg 13)

Wikidata ID

Q74070545


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