View of a Town with a Bishop's Tomb, from Vedute

Prints and Drawings

1735/44

Canaletto
Italian, 1697-1768

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.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Canaletto
Title: View of a Town with a Bishop's Tomb, from Vedute
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1735–1744
Medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 29.6 × 30.2 cm (11 11/16 × 11 15/16 in.); Plate: 30.3 × 30.7 cm (11 15/16 × 12 1/8 in.); Sheet: 43.3 × 58.7 cm (17 1/16 × 23 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
Reference Number: 1922.1381.8
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