Imaginary View of Venice (undivided plate), 1741, Etching, Sheet: 11 13/16 x 17 3/16 in. (30 x 43. 7 cm), Prints, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, Venice 1697?1768 Venice), Venice in the eighteenth century was the site of an extraordinary flourishing of print production, which reached its apogee in the years 1740?45. It was in these years that Canaletto, the great painter of views of Venice and also of England during his sojourn there, made approximately thirty etchings: thirteen large plates and seventeen smaller ones