Canaletto
Italian, 1697-1768
The Little Monument, from Vedute
INV-1597
Canaletto
Italian, 1697-17681735/44
The Little Monument, from Vedute
Canaletto Italian, 1697-1768 →etchingprint
Date
1735/44
Medium
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 11.2 × 8.3 cm (4 7/16 × 3 5/16 in.); Plate: 12 × 8.6 cm (4 3/4 × 3 7/16 in.); Sheet: 43.2 × 58.7 cm (17 1/16 × 23 1/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
Unlike painting, printmaking allowed Canaletto to separate and combine images at his own discretion. He etched the outer two vignettes on a single plate before cutting it in two (for the other half, see 1922.1381.12). Then he reversed their order and positioned a third, unrelated segment between them (1922.1381.11). Besides reusing fragments of larger plates, these mysterious composite prints appear to have little in common beyond the archways and statues they contain.
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