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A work made of etching in black on ivory laid paper.

View of a Town on a River Bank, from Vedute

Giovanni Antonio Canal · 1735/44

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Palette

Chalk
 57% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.5:1
Oyster
 19% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.0:1
Putty
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.0:1
Warm grey
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Taupe
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1
Smoke
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Giovanni Antonio Canal
Italian, 1697-1768
Date
1735/44
Type
Print
Medium
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Size
Image: 29.5 × 43.2 cm (11 5/8 × 17 1/16 in.); Plate: 30 × 43.6 cm (11 13/16 × 17 3/16 in.); Sheet: 43.3 × 58.7 cm (17 1/16 × 23 1/8 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Themes
Rivers and lakes
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 82, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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