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The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens

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The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens
ArtistCanaletto
Yearc. 1751
TypeOil on canvas
Dimensions51 cm × 76 cm (20 in × 30 in)
LocationCompton 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

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  1. ^ Uzanne p.154
  2. ^ Street Trees in Britain: A History
  3. ^ Parry p.154
  4. ^ https://www.comptonverney.org.uk/works/the-grand-walk-vauxhall-gardens/

Bibliography

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  • 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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