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Canaletto: Old Somerset House from the River Thames  wikidata:Q40440476 reasonator:Q40440476
Artist
Canaletto  (1697–1768)  wikidata:Q182664 q:it:Canaletto
 
Canaletto
Alternative names
Birth name: Giovanni Antonio Canal pseudonym: Il Canaletto
Description Italian painter, etcher and drawer
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 Edit this at Wikidata Venice Edit this at Wikidata
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)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q182664
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Title
Old Somerset House from the River Thames
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre Veduta Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Old Somerset House from the River Thames by Canaletto, oil on panel, 57.8 x 109.2 cm.
Date between circa 1745 and circa 1750
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1745-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 57.8 cm (22.7 in); width: 109.2 cm (42.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,57.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,109.2U174728
private collection Simon C. Dickinson Ltd.
References
Source/Photographer Dickinson Gallery, London and New York


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