CANALETTO

Capriccio: A tomb by a lagoon
(1740s)

Medium

pen and brown ink and grey wash over pencil with ruled brown ink border

Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923

Gallery location: Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium

pen and brown ink and grey wash over pencil with ruled brown ink border

Measurements

31.5 × 43.3 cm (sheet)

Catalogue/s Raisonné

Constable 1989, II.621

Inscription

inscribed in brown ink Anton Canal del (possibly in later hand)
inscribed in brown ink Canaletti (according to Harley Preson in an 18th century hand, but not the artist's hand)

Accession Number

1278.695-3

Department

International Prints and Drawings

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Gallery location

Not on display

Subjects (general)

Architecture Human Figures

Subjects (specific)

boats columns (architectural elements) cornices lagoons (bodies of water) lagoons (bodies of water) platforms (general) tombs

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Capriccio: A tomb by a lagoon
(1740s)