Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal)

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Date

1741

Type

Print

Medium

Etching; undivided plate, only state

Department

Drawings and Prints

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

1973.634

Credit

Purchase, Gift of Mary V.T. Eberstadt and Bequest of Gertrude Moira Flanagan, by exchange, 1973