Padua: The River Bacchiglione and the Porta Portello, ca. 1750?60, Pen and brown ink, gray wash, 7 5/16 x 10 7/16 in. (18. 5 x 26. 5 cm), Drawings, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, Venice 1697?1768 Venice), In brown ink and grey wash, Canaletto captures the bustling traffic along the Brenta Canal in Padua. The monument at left, the Porta Portello, represents the old gate of Padua on the road to Venice. Designed in 1518 and a work of great distinction, it survives today much as Canaletto describes it