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Nocturnal view of the procession on Christmas Eve of the Doge and Venetian Senate to San Giorgio Maggiore
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Nocturnal view of the procession on Christmas Eve of the Doge and Venetian Senate to San Giorgio Maggiore

Medium

Etching; first state of four

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Dimensions

Plate: 13 3/16 × 18 1/16 in. (33.5 × 45.8 cm) Sheet: 13 3/4 × 18 9/16 in. (34.9 × 47.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Giovanni Battista Moretti

1766 |1700 |1712 –1777 |1800 |1796 Italian|Italian|Italian

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