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Canaletto (1697 - 1768)
The Piazza di San Marco, Venice
c.1734-35
Oil on canvas
Height: 70.2cm
Width: 114.6cm
Width: 114.6cm
Museum number: P63
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
Britton, Union, 1827, pp. 40, 53 and 56
Soane, Description, 1830, p. 14 and 37
Description, 1835, p. 17
Russell, F., 'Engagements at Sea', Country Life, 26 January 1984, p. 227
Links, J.G. The Soane Canalettos, 1998, pp. 38-46 and passim
New Description, 2007, pp. 64 and 97
Links, J., The Soane Canalettos, 2nd revised edition 2010, pp. 40-45 and passim.
Soane, Description, 1830, p. 14 and 37
Description, 1835, p. 17
Russell, F., 'Engagements at Sea', Country Life, 26 January 1984, p. 227
Links, J.G. The Soane Canalettos, 1998, pp. 38-46 and passim
New Description, 2007, pp. 64 and 97
Links, J., The Soane Canalettos, 2nd revised edition 2010, pp. 40-45 and passim.
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