Veduta immaginaria di San Giacomo di Rialto (Imaginary View of San Giacomo di Rialto), from the series Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate (Views, Some Representing Actual Sites, Others Imaginary
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), Italian, 1697 - 1768
about 1740-1744
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 5 11/16 × 8 1/2 in. (14.5 × 21.6 cm)
Sheet: 7 7/16 × 10 1/16 in. (18.9 × 25.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jean K. Weil in memory of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.997.5.49
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower center margin: A. Canal f.; inscribed, in graphite, upper right: 26
Course History
REL 60, Reformations: Protestant and Catholic, Catherine Randall, Fall 2013
Exhibition History
A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.
Canaletto's Vedute Prints: An Exhibition in Honor of Adolf Weil, Jr., Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 1-December 6, 2015.
Italian Master Prints of the 18th Century: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, September 16-November 4, 1984, no. 16.
Master Prints from the Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, September 11-November 6, 1977, and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, July 2-August 14, 1978, no. 66.
Two Views of Italy: Master Prints by Canaletto and Piranesi, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-September 3, 1995, no. 28.
Publication History
Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, listed, p.89, no. 80.
Richard Rand and John Varriano, Two Views of Italy: Master Prints by Canaletto and Piranesi, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1995, p. 60, fig. 22; p. 93, no. 28.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Master Prints of the Eighteenth Century: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1984, no. 16.
Diane J. Gingold, Master Prints from the Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1977, pp. 112-13, no. 66, ill.
Sarah G. Powers and Margaret Lynne Ausfeld, Canaletto's Vedute Prints, An Exhibition in Honor of Adolph Weil Jr., Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2015, p. 6, fig. 2.
Provenance
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York; lot 148; sold to Jean K. and Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, on May 14, 1974; given to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
De Vesme 456.27; Bromberg 30
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