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SM P61. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
Canaletto (1697 - 1768)
A view of the Rialto, Venice
1734-35
Oil on canvas
Height: 64.1cm
Width: 109.7cm
Width: 109.7cm
Museum number: P61
On display: Picture Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Provenance
Purchased by Soane at the sale of the Earl of Bute's pictures at Christie's, 19 March 1796.
Literature
John Britton, Union, 1827, pp. 40, 53 and 56
Soane, Description, 1830, p. 14 and 37
Soane, Description, 1835, p. 17
Russell, F., 'Engagements at Sea', Country Life, 26 January 1984, p. 227
Links, J.G. The Soane Canalettos, 1998, pp. 36-38 and passim
New Description, 2007 pp. 64 and 97
Links, J., The Soane Canalettos, 2nd revised edition, 2010, pp. 34-39 and passim
Soane, Description, 1830, p. 14 and 37
Soane, Description, 1835, p. 17
Russell, F., 'Engagements at Sea', Country Life, 26 January 1984, p. 227
Links, J.G. The Soane Canalettos, 1998, pp. 36-38 and passim
New Description, 2007 pp. 64 and 97
Links, J., The Soane Canalettos, 2nd revised edition, 2010, pp. 34-39 and passim
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