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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R2962
People
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1697 - 1768 Venice, Italy)
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1697 - 1768 Venice, Italy)
Title
Portico with a Lantern
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1741
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304378

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 30.3 × 43.7 cm (11 15/16 × 17 3/16 in.)
sheet: 32.9 × 46 cm (12 15/16 × 18 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: etched in lower margin to left of center: A, Canal. f. V.
  • inscription: engraved below left column: F F 4
  • inscription: written in brown ink in plate amrgin at right corner : F F 4
  • inscription: written in upper left corner of sheet margin: 68
  • watermark: Bromberg watermark 10: R
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: z 7 [?, struck through] / $275 [the 75 underlined as if the total figure was 2.75]
  • collector's mark: verso, faded purple stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    JOHN WITT RANDALL COLL. / HARVARD COLLEGE / no. 2962 [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
iii/iii
Standard Reference Number
DeVesme 10, Bromberg 10

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R2962
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Michael Cole, ed., The Early Modern Painter-Etcher, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA, 2006), cat. 53, pp. 154-155 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Verification Level

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