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canaletto: capturing the body english
Canaletto and his postcard from London. A little too picure perfect. What was really happening behind those walls and in those narrow streets on that sunny afternoon… On the whole, London was lucky in that the town’s best source of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Catchpenny prints, Charles Dickens, Chelsea Ware, Henry Fielding, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Sheridan, Robert Griffier painter, Steele and Addison, Thomas Chippendale furniture, Wedgewood pottery
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catch one if you can
Catchpenny prints, like those below were done by anonymous artists of the day and peddled for small change, usually for the tourist trade. As far as the middle of the eighteenth century goes, they reveal much about dress and costume … Continue reading
canaletto: from venice to the thames
Canaletto’s iconic painting, A View of the Thames from Lambeth Palace is a picture perfect postcard, but behind this idyllic view of eighteenth century London was simply too pleasant. Only a tourist could believe it. In fact, much was happening … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Catchpenny prints, Charles Dickens, David Garrick, Henry Fielding, Hyde Park floggings, Judith Dufour, London eighteenth-century, London the Spectator, London the Tatler, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Sheridan, Robert Griffier, Samuel Scott painter, Smith's Square London, Tyburn public hangings
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canaletto: picture perfect postcard
…The rumor went around town that this painter was not the real Canaletto, that the real Canaletto had stayed in Venice, or else that some assistant was working for him in London “in makeing or filling up his pieces…of works … Continue reading
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Tagged Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Catchpenny prints, Edward Dayes water colorist, Ferdinand Philip 6th Prince Lobkowicz, Frederick Earl of Carlisle, George Vertue, Madame Pickwick, Robert Griffier painter, Samuel Scott painter, Thomas Hill tutor Duke of Richmond
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canaletto : the “vedutes”
A postcard from London.. …In 1739, the French scholar Charles de Brosses summed up both Canaletto’s talents and career in a letter to a friend: “Sa maniere est claire, gaie,vive…et d’un detail admirable…” Nearly all of the work Canaletto did … Continue reading
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Tagged Canaletto, Carlevaris painter, Catchpenny prints, Charles de Brosses, Frederick Earl of Carlisle, George Vertue, Giovanni Antonio Canal, John Duke of Bedford, Joseph Smith consul Venice, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Owen McSwiney, Thomas Hill tutor Duke of Richmond, War of the Austrian Succession
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postcard from london
To treat one of the best works of one of Italy’s finest eighteenth-century painters as a mere tourist’s memento of a London holiday- as no more than a picture postcard- must seem callous indeed. However, Canaletto’s art was exactly that … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Canaletto, Carlevaris, Catchpenny prints, Duke of Richmond, Ferdinand Filip, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Lewis Walpole, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Owen McSwiney, The Grand Tour, The Grand Tour Venice
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