1740
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
View of a Town with a Bishop's Tomb is a 1740 ink by Canaletto, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This drawing shows a town with a tall, spiky church tower on the left. The buildings are packed close together, and a river runs along the bottom. The artist used lots of fine lines to show details like rooftops, trees, and even people walking. The artist made this as an etching, which means they scratched lines into a metal plate and then pressed ink into them. The lines create a textured look, almost like a sketch. Next, look up etching to see how this technique works.
Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (Italian: ), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
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