# Warwick Castle: The East Front, in 18th-century Italy

Canaletto drew this in 1752, aged 55. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Canaletto spent nearly a decade in England from 1746, when war had cut off the flow of British travellers to Venice. Among his patrons there was Lord Brooke, owner of Warwick Castle, of which he made several views.

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## The work

- Date: 1752
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash
- Dimensions: 12 7/16 x 22 1/8 in. (31.6 x 56.2 cm)
- Type: Drawings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.297
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Canaletto](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/canaletto), Italian, 1697–1768

Canaletto, the son of a Venetian painter of theatre scenery, turned in the 1720s to painting views of his native city and became its leading vedutista. British travellers on the Grand Tour were his most eager patrons, many through the merchant and consul Joseph Smith.

6 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Canaletto](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/canaletto?hang=749) (6 works)
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