Imaginary View of Padua

c. 1735/1746

Canaletto

Artist, Venetian, 1697 - 1768

Media Options

This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 29.6 × 43.3 cm (11 5/8 × 17 1/16 in.)
    plate: 30.1 × 43.5 cm (11 7/8 × 17 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 45.8 × 63.8 cm (18 1/16 × 25 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.64.148

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bromberg 1993, no. 11, state ii/iii

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. 10.

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. 11, ii/iii.

1993

  • Bromberg, Ruth. Canaletto's etchings: revised and enlarged edition of the catalogue raisonné. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1993, no. 11, ii/iii.

2002

  • Montecuccoli degli Erri, Federico. Canaletto incisore. Venice: Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, 2002, no. 11.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: A. Canal f.

Markings

initials F(?)A

Watermarks

Inverted A (top half of Bromberg 13)

Wikidata ID

Q74070612

You may be interested in

Loading Results