Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese…, by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), 1741
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Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese…

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, Venice 1697–1768 Venice)

Dedicatee Joseph Smith

1741

Medium
Etching; undivided plate, only state
Classification
Prints
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 11 13/16 × 17 3/16 in. (30 × 43.7 cm)
Culture
Italian
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Purchase, Gift of Mary V.T. Eberstadt and Bequest of Gertrude Moira Flanagan, by exchange, 1973
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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