drawing
- Museum number
- 1858,0626.239
- Description
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View of the Piazza del Campidoglio with Palazzo Senatorio, Rome; statues and a fountain between the two flights of steps leading to the palace, a long flight of steps leading to another building across the courtyard
Pen and brown ink, with grey-brown wash, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1720 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 162 millimetres
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Width: 227 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For the attribution and the history of the 22 BM Roman views see the curator's commentary for 1858-6-26-221.
Literature: T. Ashby and W.G. Constable, 'Canaletto and Bellotto in Rome - II', 'The Burlington Magazine', XLVI, June 1925, p. 294; W.G. Constable, 'Canaletto', Oxford, 1962, II, no. 713 (239, 20) (ditto 2nd edition revised by J.G. Links, 1976); A. Corboz, 'Canaletto. Una Venezia immaginaria', Milan, 1985, p. 71, pl. D.1/20
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1858,0626.239