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Capriccio: House and Tower on a Lagoon
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian (Venetian), 1697–1768)
mid-18th century
Medium/Technique
Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash over graphite pencil on white paper, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
Sheet: 21.4 x 31.6 cm (8 7/16 x 12 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Arthur Mason Knapp Fund
Accession Number48.1322
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Macandrew 050
InscriptionsWilliam Esdaille (stamp recto bottom right corner); Charles S. Bale (stamp on back of mat); Earl of Beresford.
ProvenanceWilliam Beckford (b. 1760 - d. 1844), Fonthill Abbey; March 1-4, 1824, Fonthill Abbey sale, Phillips, London, possibly in lot 170 [see note 1]. William Esdaille (b. 1758 - d. 1837; Lugt 2617), London; June 18-25, 1840, posthumous Esdaile sale, Christie and Manson, London, lot 452, to Smith. Charles Sackville Bale (b. 1791 - d. 1880; Lugt 640), London; June 9-14, 1881, posthumous Bale sale, Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, lot 2260, to Lord Mays. 1948, sold by H. V. Allison and Co., Inc., New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1948)
NOTES:
[1] The verso of the drawing is annotated "Canaletti / View in the Lagunes / from the Beckford Collection." It sold in 1881 as "View on the Lagunes, From the Beckford and Esdaile Collections." There were seventeen "views of Venice" by Canaletto sold in the Fonthill Abbey auction under lot 170.
NOTES:
[1] The verso of the drawing is annotated "Canaletti / View in the Lagunes / from the Beckford Collection." It sold in 1881 as "View on the Lagunes, From the Beckford and Esdaile Collections." There were seventeen "views of Venice" by Canaletto sold in the Fonthill Abbey auction under lot 170.