File:Canaletto - The City of Westminster from River Thames near the York Water Gate.jpg

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Canaletto: The City of Westminster from River Thames near the York Water Gate  wikidata:Q40582626 reasonator:Q40582626
Artist
Canaletto  (1697–1768)  wikidata:Q182664 q:it:Canaletto
 
Canaletto
Alternative names
Birth name: Giovanni Antonio Canal pseudonym: Il Canaletto
Description Italian painter, etcher, graphic artist and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 7 October 1697 / 17 October 1697 / 18 October 1697 / 1697 Edit this at Wikidata 19 April 1758 / 10 April 1768 / 19 April 1768 / 20 April 1768 / 1768 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Venice Venice
Work period from 1716 until 1768
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1716-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Venice (1716–1719), Rome (1719), Vienna, Dresden, Venice (1720–1746), London (circa 1746–1756), Venice (circa 1756–1768)
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artist QS:P170,Q182664
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Title
English: The City of Westminster from River Thames near the York Water Gate
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre Veduta Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1746
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 50.8 cm (20 in); width: 83.5 cm (32.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,50.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,83.5U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Notes owned by Dukes of Grafton; By inheritance to Mrs. Charles Wood, by 1959; Sold for 2.057.000 USD on 24 January 2008 in NYC
References
Source/Photographer http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2008/important-old-master-paintings-including-european-works-of-art-n08404/lot.115.html
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