Artist Canaletto, Italian, 1697-1768
Title
  • View of a Town on a River Bank
  • Village on the Brenta River (alternate title)
Date between 1735 and 1746
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 11 7/8 × 17 inches (30.2 × 43.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 3/4 × 17 7/8 inches (32.4 × 45.4 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S222
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Marks Stamp, in purple, verso: Juan Jorge Peoli (Lugt 1481)
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower center: A. Canal. f.
Inscribed, lower right: E 5.
Inscribed, in black ink, verso: H. Z.
May 1894, Juan Jorge Peoli (New York, New York, USA).
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)