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Giacomo Guardi
1764-1835
View of San Michele on Murano
Opaque watercolor, with pen and black ink, on paper.
4 1/4 x 6 15/16 inches (108 x 176 mm)
Bequest of Miss Alice Tully.
1996.15
Inscription: 

Inscribed on small sheet pasted to back of frame, in pen and brown ink, "S. Michel di Murano"; inscribed on separate sheet pasted to back of frame, in blue pencil, "by Giacomo Guardi / bought in Venice by Col. [ch. Houle?] / John Theophilus Rawson / Father of Lady William Russel / Collection of Flora Russel / East Hills / Albury / Surrey".

Provenance: 
Alice Tully, New York.
Associated names: 

Tully, Alice, 1902-1993, former owner.

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Artist page: 
Guardi, Giacomo
School: 
Italian
Century: 
18th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints