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TITLE:
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View of a Town on a River Bank
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WORK DATE:
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circa 1735
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CATEGORY:
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Prints
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MATERIALS:
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Etching
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SIZE:
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h: 30.1 x w: 43 cm / h: 11.9 x w: 16.9 in
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DESCRIPTION:
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DeVesme 9, Bromberg 9 ii/ii. A fine, clear impression, though without the strong contrasts of the first state, the lines of the sky printing particularly cleanly and evenly, on laid paper with an R watermark and margins of at least 20 mm. all around; a tiny dot of printer’s ink by the tree. The second state carries the etched number E5 at the lower right. Impressions of the first state are known on this same paper. Bromberg dates the work immediately before The Portico with the Lantern, generally considered Canaletto's greatest print. The scene, though presumably an imaginary composite, relates to views along the Brenta in the Veneto, the summer residence of wealthy Venetians, and the print breathes the atmosphere of a summer day on the river in a lost century.
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