Harvard Art Museums > R2968: Imaginary View of Padua Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Imaginary View of Padua (Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto) , R2968,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/242374. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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] Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
