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Details
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 43.0 cm platemark/sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., [incised plate] "A Canal...". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Sir Kenneth Street 1962
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- DO8.1962
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Canaletto
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About
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.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Acquisitions 1962, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 Apr 1963–12 May 1963
Light from Shadow, the role of chiaroscuro in spatial imaging, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington, 22 Oct 2003–29 Nov 2003
