Canaletto
(Italy 1697–1768)
- Title
- Le porte del Dolo
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching
- Edition
- 2/3
- Dimensions
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30.0 x 43.0cm platemark; 30.6 x 43.8cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l., [incised plate] "A Canal...". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1937
- Accession number
- 8488
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
The setting is the oval-shaped basin of the locks at Dolo, a town on the Brenta. Moored at the quay is a 'burchiello', a type of passenger barge. Under the archway a butcher sits in his shop surrounded by carcasses. In front of the shop, a diminutive lacemaker works at a table.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Peter Raissis (Australia) (Author), Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian Old Master Prints from the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 1998, 8. no catalogue numbers
- Exhibition history (2)
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Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian Old Master Prints from the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 Jun 1998–20 Sep 1998.
Old Europe: Prints & drawings from the collection 1500-1800, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 03 Jun 2006–06 Aug 2006.
