The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens

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The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens
Caneletto - The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens, London WAR COMP 131.jpg
Artist Canaletto
Yearc. 1751
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions51 cm× 76 cm(20 in× 30 in)
Location Compton 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]

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Canaletto uses an exaggerated perspective. [3] It is now in the Compton Verney Art Gallery in Warwickshire. [4]

References

  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/

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