R2968: Imaginary View of Padua

Identification and Creation

Object Number

R2968

People

Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1697 - 1768 Venice, Italy)

Title

Imaginary View of Padua

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Murano

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

c. 1741

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/242374

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 30 × 43.7 cm (11 13/16 × 17 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: etched in lower margin, centered: A. Canal. f.
• inscription: lower right corner of margin, graphite: S. [or 8.?]
• inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: K 2[?] [underlined with two illeg. digits or letters below] / B / $3.00 / [illeg.E[underlined with struck-through illeg. letters below and four hash marks struck through to the right followed by] bc [, all over] ul / DeV11 M11 / No. 6 / /BO /2B / [illeg.]100 [struck through]
• collector's mark: verso, faded purple stamp with accession number written in graphite:
  JOHN WITT RANDALL COLL. / HARVARD COLLEGE / no. 2968[number on a dotted line] [Lugt 2130]
  

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

i/iii

Standard Reference Number

DeVesme 11, Bromberg 11

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall

Object Number

R2968

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 320, p 274, repr.
• Sarah Vure, The John Witt Randall Collection: Seeking the True and the Beautiful, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), checklist no. 7
• Michael Cole, ed., The Early Modern Painter-Etcher, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA, 2006), repr. as fig. 55 on p.76 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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