| The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens | |
| Artist: | Canaletto |
| Year: | c. 1751 |
| Type: | Oil on canvas |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | Compton Verney Art Gallery |
| City: | Warwickshire |
The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens is a landscape painting by the Italian artist Canaletto.[1] 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.[2]
Canaletto uses an exaggerated perspective.[3] It is now in the Compton Verney Art Gallery in Warwickshire.[4]