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The owl may have been included as an allusion to human folly
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1865 accompanied in the catalogue by a sonnet by the artist's friend
He holds up a coin to buy a glass of gin from the woman seated opposite
The devices of the huntsmen's spears
and the pinnacle on the right-hand corner of the roof-line
The Piazzetta, Venice Federico The owl may have beenCarlevarijs was an innovative painter whose pioneering publication of 104 etched views of Venice in 1703 was later used as a source by Canaletto and other view painters. This informal view, perhaps of the 1720s, is one of a group depicting everyday life around the Piazza San Marco. A study for the figure of the man reading is in the V&A, London.
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