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Title

View of Northumberland House and Charing Cross

Dated

c. 1752

Artist

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Nationality

Italian

Artist Life

(Venice), 1697–1768

Role

Artist

Gallery

Not on View

Department

European Art

Dimension

11 3/8 x 18 3/4 in. (28.89 x 47.63 cm) (sheet)23 3/4 x 29 3/4 x 1 1/8 in. (60.33 x 75.57 x 2.86 cm) (outer frame)

Credit

John DeLaittre Memorial Collection Gift of funds from Mrs. Horace Ropes

Accession Number

23.50.54

Medium

Pen and brown ink over graphite with grey washes

Country

Italy

Century

18th century

Provenance

'George Reveley (1699-1766); his son, Henry Reveley (1737-1798), Bryn-y-Gwyn, Dolgelley, Merionethshire, North Wales, and by inheritance there until 1923: his son, Hugh, Reveley (1772-after 1851'); his grandson Hugh John Reveley (1812-1889), by 1876; his daughter, Fanny Jane Jelf-Reveley (until 1923); [Robert Langton Douglas, London, 1923; sold to MIA] This drawing comes for the Reveley Collection, one of the oldest and most important of English Collections. Until a few years ago, the drawing hung in the drawing room of the ancient home of the Reveleys Bryn-y-gwyn, Dolgelley, North Wales.

Rights

Public Domain

Classification

Drawings

Object Name

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