The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens
Painting by Canaletto From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Painting by Canaletto From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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 |
Canaletto uses an exaggerated perspective.[3] It is now in the Compton Verney Art Gallery in Warwickshire.[4]
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