Title-page

Maker

(artist)
1697-1768

(etcher)
1697-1768

Title

Title-page

Date of Production

(circa) 1744

Medium

etching

Dimensions

Height: 29.4 cm
Width: 42.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1933.HO.1.1

Mode of Acquisition

Henry Oppenheimer, bequest, 1933 (January)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Label Text

This series was dedicated to Canaletto's patron, the collector and dealer Joseph Smith, who became the British Consul in Venice in 1744. The inscription reads: 'Views / Some taken from [actual] places / others invented, / by / Antonio Canal / and by him etched and set in perspective / humbly [dedicated] to themost illustrious / Joseph Smith / Consul of His Britannic Majesty to the Most Serene / Republic of Venice. / In sign of homage and esteem.'

Provenance

Previous owner : Oppenheimer, Henry

Exhibition History

Print Room Display - Inscriptions, The Courtauld Gallery (Prints and Drawings Study Room), 23/02/2017-01/06/2017

Piranesi, Tiepolo, Canaletto - Etchings from the Courtauld
Collection
, London & England, 11/02/1999-03/05/1999

Canaletto's Etched Views of Venice and its Environs, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 09/03/1991-09/06/1991 ...More

Canaletto - Etchings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/11/1974-01/12/1974 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : inscribed : printed : recto : : VEDUTE / Altre prese da i Luoghi altre ideate / DA / ANTONIO CANAL / e da esso intagliate poste in prospetiva / umiliate / All'Ill.mo Signor / GIUSEPPE SMITH / Console di S.M. Britanica appresso la Ser.ma / Repubblica di Venezia. / in segno di stima ed ossequio

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