Art Institute of Chicago
View of a Town with a Bishop's Tomb, from Vedute
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- Date
- 1735/44
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 159746
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Canaletto originally conceived View of a Town with a Bishop’s Tomb as a single plate but cut it into three parts. For unknown reasons, he severed the plate in the middle of the central archway. The artist may have disliked the print’s originally imbalanced composition. The altered picture seen here allows the viewer to catch a glimpse into the town beyond the foreground tomb.
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- Credit line
- The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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