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Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Imaginary View of Padua, c. 1741
Canaletto
Italian, 1697
- 1768
etching on laid paper
46.8 x 61.6 cm; plate: 30.2 x 43.5 cm
Purchased 1968
National Gallery of Canada (no. 15392)
In addition to his topographical views, Canaletto also made capricci, fanciful constructions of his own invention. This is one such scene from the artist's imagination, a panorama of a walled town with buildings that recall but do not represent the city of Padua, near Venice.
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