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A capriccio with the Ponte delle Navi in Verona c.1740-45
Pen and ink, with grey wash, over free and ruled pencil and pinpointing | 25.1 x 37.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 907540
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A drawing of an invented view, known as a capriccio. The drawing shows the Ponte delle Navi bridge in Verona. Figures are shown crossing the bridge, and boats are shown on the river below. On the left hand side many buildings can be seen along the river bank. This drawing was originally in Consul Smith's Visentini album. Both Parker and Crawley accepted this drawing as by Canaletto, but an attribution to Bellotto has subsequently been made by Penelope C. Brownell in 'Bernado Bellotto: Verona e le città europee' (Milan, 1990), cat. no. 39, and the drawing is given to Bellotto in Bożena Anna Kowalczyk (ed.), 'Canaletto e Bellotto: L'arte della Veduta' (Milan, 2008), cat. no. 76. Bellotto depicts the Ponte delle Navi in a painting, now in Dresden (Inv. no. 605), and in a preparatory drawing for this painting, which is in Warsaw (Inv. no. 2041).
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Purchased by George III from Consul Joseph Smith, 1762
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink, with grey wash, over free and ruled pencil and pinpointing
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25.1 x 37.9 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 7540