Imaginary landscape with oxcart crossing a bridge

Maker

(artist)
1697-1768

(etcher)
1697-1768

Title

Imaginary landscape with oxcart crossing a bridge

Date of Production

1741 = 1744

Medium

ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 14.3 cm
Width: 12.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1933.HO.1.34

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


road carts


Label Text

The plate from which this etching was printed was cut from a larger plate. However, no impressions exist from the plate before it was cut in two, and it may be that Canaletto destroyed all the prints he took becase he was dissatisfied with the composition. Nevertheless, this image remains interesting for the comparison between the watery view through the arch of the bridge and the airy view through the archway of the gatehouse above.

Provenance

Previous owner : Oppenheimer, Henry

Exhibition History

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

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

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed : printed : lower right & recto : : A. Canal f.

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