Warwick Castle: The East Front, 1752, Pen and brown ink, gray wash, 12 7/16 x 22 1/8 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Canaletto

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Warwick Castle: The East Front, 1752, Pen and brown ink, gray wash, 12 7/16 x 22 1/8 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, Venice 1697–1768 Venice), 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

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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