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CANALETTO: Old Walton Bridge

CANALETTO
🖼 Old Walton Bridge, 1754
Oil on canvas
48.8 × 76.7 cm
London, United Kingdom

Golden light bathes a wooden bridge spanning the Thames, rendered with precise architectural detail and luminous water reflections. Canaletto captures eighteenth-century England's engineering progress, blending Venetian veduta tradition with British topography to document a now-demolished landmark.

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E. H. Gombrich
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