LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pen and brown ink and three shades of grey wash, heightened with touches of (partly oxidised) white over black chalk, within original brown ink framing lines

Measurements:

15.00 in. (38.10 cm.) (height) by 21.65 in. (55.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, . Canaletto. Disegni-Dipinti-Incisioni (catalogue by Alessandro Bettagno), 1982, pp. 51-2, no. 64

Literature:

W.G. Constable & J.G. Links, . Canaletto. Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768) , 3rd edition, Oxford 1989, vol. II, p. 528, no. 630, reproduced vol. I, plate 115;. . Canaletto 1697-1768, exhib. cat., Rome, Palazzo Braschi, 2018, p. 138, under no. 34, p. 196, under no. 59

Provenance:

Probably Lodovico Furlanetto, Venice,. Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet, acquired in Venice probably from Furlanetto, circa 1787-89,. thence by inheritance at Stourhead, Wiltshire,. Stourhead Heirlooms sale, London, Christie's, 2 June 1883, lot. 26 (to Grindley, on behalf of a member of the Hoare family),. by descent in the Hoare family until 2005; . Private Collection