The art of the Wallace Collection, including an account of its founders, a description of the pictures, and a survey of the chief exhibits in the galleries devoted to objects of art and arms and armour (1913)
Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles) · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 104
strument. In his transcripts of the scenes of Venice, as theexamples in this gallery show, Canaletto sometimesconfined himself to literalism and sometimes be-came an architect on his own account, rearranging,in compositions of the latter type, the buildingsin his views to his own artistic… … Galleries IRlne to Uvoclvc 75 ings supplied the deficiency and provided uniquesouvenirs of the famous city. So popular did theybecome, indeed, that the English consul effected a corner in them by engaging their producer towork for him for a long term of years, paying him,however, prices far below…
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