Title
[Lucca Cathedral from the Palazzo dell'Arcivescovado].
Creator
Bellotto, Bernardo, 1721-1780, artist.
Publication details
[between 1742 and 1745]
Physical details
1 drawing : pen and ink over graphite ; sheet 24.7 x 36.7 cm
Description
View of the Duomo from the east, with a man on a cart and other figures in the archiepiscopal palace's courtyard enclosed by the cloisters at left and a group of two-storey houses at right in the foreground, walled garden beyond, and apse of the cathedral flanked by the Capella del Sacramento at left and the Capella della Liberta_ at right in the background.
Place
Lucca (Italy)
Additional information
One of five drawings formerly believed to be by Canaletto (see A. P. Oppe_, English Drawings, Stuart and Georgian Periods, in the Collection of H. M. the King at Windsor, London, 1951, pp. 9-10); attributed to Bellotto by F. J. B. Watson in 1953. They are all annotated with 'Lucca' in brown ink and numbered in pencil.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.80.21.c.