The Bishop's Tomb, from Vedute

Description

Unlike painting, printmaking allowed Canaletto to separate and combine images at his own discretion. He etched the outer two vignettes (1922.1381.10 and .12) on a single plate before cutting it in two. Then he reversed their order and positioned a third, unrelated segment seen here between them. This plate is the missing piece from View of a Town with a Bishop’s Tomb (1922.1381.8). Besides reusing fragments of larger plates, these mysterious composite prints appear to have little in common beyond the archways and statues they contain.

The Bishop's Tomb, from Vedute

Canaletto

1735/44

Accession Number

159749

Medium

Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 21.8 × 13 cm (8 5/8 × 5 1/8 in.); Plate: 22.1 × 13.1 cm (8 3/4 × 5 3/16 in.); Sheet: 43.2 × 58.7 cm (17 1/16 × 23 1/8 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection