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Warwick Castle: The East Front

1752
Not on view
Canaletto's highly detailed, topographically accurate panoramic views were greatly admired and avidly collected by English visitors to Venice, who acquired them as souvenirs of the Grand Tour. In 1746, when demand for Canaletto's work in his native city declined, he traveled to England. He remained there for nearly a decade, producing characteristically descriptive views of London and the English countryside. The artist completed five paintings of Warwick Castle, the subject of this scenic drawing, for Francis Greville, Lord Brooke, and later Earl of Warwick. The Lehman sheet appears to have served as a preparatory design for the canvas now in the City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, one of two versions depicting the castle from the east.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Warwick Castle: The East Front
  • Artist: Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, Venice 1697–1768 Venice)
  • Date: 1752
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash
  • Dimensions: 12 7/16 x 22 1/8 in. (31.6 x 56.2 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.297
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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Woman drawing water from a well beneath an arcade at left, with a landscape at right, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Italian, Etching
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Piazza San Marco with the Procuratie Nuove on the left and the church of San Geminiano in the background, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Italian, Etching
Piazza San Marco with the Procuratie Nuove on the left and the church of San Geminiano in the background
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
1735–46
The market on the Molo in Venice, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Italian, Etching
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Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
1735–46
The façade of the Palazzo Ducale, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Italian, Etching
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1735–46
Le porte del Dolo: the oval basin of the locks at Dolo, with a barge moored to the quay, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Italian, Etching; third state of three (Bromberg)
Le porte del Dolo: the oval basin of the locks at Dolo, with a barge moored to the quay
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