drawing;
forgery
- Museum number
- 1992,1003.176
- Description
-
View across the Grand Canal of the Ducal Palace, Venice; the palace at l, with various palazzos and buildings stretching to right, many boats and gondolas on the canal, including men in a large boat at right foreground
Pen and grey ink, with grey wash
- Production date
- 1800-1912
- Dimensions
-
Height: 466 millimetres
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Width: 711 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Identified as a fake.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
Verso inscribed by James Byam Shaw: "Modern forgery of Guardi -/bought [by?] Ld Mount Temple in/Venice 1912/JBS"
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,1003.176
