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Description: | A view across a wide canal, with boating activity, towards the line of the city on the horizon. To the left are elaborate waterside buildings; at the base of a flight of steps leading to the water from the buildings is gondola manned by two figures, standing at the top of the steps are two female figures; a larger sailing boat is moored in front of the buildings with a small vessel being rowed by its side. In the left foreground is a gondola being punted and rowed, carrying three other figures. Beyond, the water stretches into the background, extending towards the city bathed in light; moored boats line the shore behind which rise tall buildings, the domed roofs of a cathedral and the classical temple facade of a waterside building being particularly prominent. To the right are a group of large sailing boats at anchor, many with human activity, with smaller rowing boats travelling between them.
Frame: gilt plaster, ornamented with a series of complex moulding strips with differing designs; softwood principal moulding with compo ornament and flat slip-frame with a bevelled sight-edge.
medium: Oil paint on canvas
Venice by James Holland, 1850 (circa), (1917.155). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.662 | Go to resource |
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