print;
album
- Museum number
- 1948,1117.1.1-43
- Title
- Series: Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus Celebriores
- Description
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Complete series of the 38 plates of views of Venice after paintings by Canaletto, in a mottled calf binding with the arms of Consul Smith: consisting of:
1. title-page in letterpress continuing 'ex Antonii Canal Tabulis XXXVIII aere expressi ab Antonio Visentini in partes tres distributi: Venetiis apud Joannem Baptistam Pasquali. MDCCXLII. Pars Prima', and with an etched vignette designed and etched by Visentini with Apollo holding out a book
unnumbered.a printed sheet listing all the 38 plates
2. a titleplate to the 'Magni Canalis Venetiarum', depicting the winged lion of Venice lower centre and two allegorical female figures at left and right, dated 1742, and engraved by Angela Baroni after Visentini
3. plate with two portraits in ovals of Canaletto and Visentini after Piazzetta, set into a frame designed by Visentini
4 to 17. the complete set of 14 plates of part one, previously published in 1735, numbered from I to XIV
18. second title-page, repeating the same plate as in (1) above, but with 'Pars Secunda'
19 to 30. the complete set of 12 plates of part two, numbered from 1 to 12
31. third title-page, repeating the same plate as in (1) above, but with 'Pars Tertia'
32 to 43. the complete set of 12 plates of part three, numbered from 1 to 12
Etchings
- Production date
- 1742
- Dimensions
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Height: 270 millimetres
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Height: 360 millimetres
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Width: 425 millimetres (platemark: average)
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Width: 510 millimetres (sheet)
- Curator's comments
- Visentini's series of etchings after Canaletto was first published in a single part of 14 plates in 1735 under the title 'Prospectus Magni Canalis Venetiarum', and expanded with two new series of 12 plates apiece, and re-issued as three parts of 38 plates in 1742 under a new title 'Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores' (reprinted 1751). The original drawings by Visentini for the plates, from Consul Smith's collection, are in the British Museum.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Map Room in 1948 (Maps 143.d.8), acquired by the Library on 5 January 1853
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1948,1117.1.1-43
