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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M6478
People
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1697 - 1768 Venice, Italy)
Title
La Libreria of Venice
Other Titles
Former Title: La "libreria" de Venise
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1741
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/255061

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 14.3 × 20.8 cm (5 5/8 × 8 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: centered, etched in lower margin: la libreria. V.
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 641 / a 5 [underlined]
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 6479 [Lugt 936]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Bromberg ii/iii
Standard Reference Number
DeVesme 15, Bromberg 18

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
M6478
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Renata Fox and John Fox, A Journey into the Levant as It Once Was, Rowanvale Books Ltd (Cardiff, 2019), p. 36, repr. as fig. 10

Verification Level

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