The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens is a landscape painting by the Italian artist Canaletto.Uzanne p.154 He had made his name painting scenes of his native Venice, but moved to England for nine years from 1746 and painted many noted views of mid-eighteenth-century Great Britain. Vauxhall Gardens was a fashionable pleasure gardens, located to the south of the Thames in London. A tree-lined walk ran some distance towards a statue of Aurora at the eastern perimeter of the gardens.Street Trees in Britain: A History
Canaletto uses an exaggerated perspective.Parry p.154 It is now in the Compton Verney Art Gallery in Warwickshire.
References
Bibliography Johnston, Mark. Street Trees in Britain: A History. Windgather Press, 2017. Kowalczyk, Bożena Anna . Canaletto, 1697–1768. Silvana Editoriale, 2018. Parry, Eric. Context: Architecture and the Genius of Place. John Wiley & Sons, 2015. Uzanne, Octave. Canaletto. Parkstone International, 2023.
See also List of paintings by Canaletto