The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens
| The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens | |
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| Artist | Canaletto |
| Year | c. 1751 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 51 cm × 76 cm (20 in × 30 in) |
| Location | Compton Verney Art Gallery, Warwickshire |
The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens is a landscape painting by the Italian artist Canaletto.[1] He had made his name painting scenes of his native Venice, but moved to England for nine years from 1746 and painted many noted views of mid-eighteenth-century Great Britain. Vauxhall Gardens was a fashionable pleasure gardens, located to the south of the Thames in London. A tree-lined walk ran some distance towards a statue of Aurora at the eastern perimeter of the gardens.[2]
Canaletto uses an exaggerated perspective.[3] It is now in the Compton Verney Art Gallery in Warwickshire.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Uzanne p.154
- ^ Street Trees in Britain: A History
- ^ Parry p.154
- ^ https://www.comptonverney.org.uk/works/the-grand-walk-vauxhall-gardens/
Bibliography
[edit]- Johnston, Mark. Street Trees in Britain: A History. Windgather Press, 2017.
- Kowalczyk, Bożena Anna . Canaletto, 1697–1768. Silvana Editoriale, 2018.
- Parry, Eric. Context: Architecture and the Genius of Place. John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
- Uzanne, Octave. Canaletto. Parkstone International, 2023.
See also
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