drawing
- Museum number
- Pp,5.144
- Description
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Capriccio with a Palladian church like S. Giorgio Maggiore, boats, gondolas and figures in the foreground
Pen and brown ink, and grey wash, over black chalk (much of it drawn with the aid of a ruler)
- Production date
- 1756-1768 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 301 millimetres
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Width: 267 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Constable links this with a drawing in the Royal Collection showing San Giorgio Maggiore (Parker 35, fig. 16; Constable-Links 612), but the connection between the two is not close. The church in the BM drawing bears only a general resemblance to Palladio's, and there seems no reason to think that Canaletto would have needed to refer to the Windsor drawing in order to create it. The rounded, pneumatic figures and the touches of Gothic ornament in the building on the right indicate that this was drawn during or after Canaletto's stay in England.
Lit: G. Ferrari, 'I due Canaletto', Turin, 1914, pl. 52; D. Hadeln, 'The Drawings of Antonio Canal called Canaletto', London, 1929, p. 1; Exhib. cat., London, BM, 'Canaletto and English Draughtsmen', 1953, no. 52; W.G. Constable, 'Canaletto', Oxford, 1962, II, no. 771 (ditto 2nd edition revised by J.G. Links, 1976)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Pp,5.144