942. ETON COLLEGE.
Canaletto (Venetian: 1697-1768). See under 127.
Painted during the artist's first English visit, 1746-1748, perhaps in the same year (1747) that Gray published his well-known ode—
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers
That crown the watery glade,
Where grateful Science still adores
Her Henry's holy shade.