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Venice, the Bridge of Sighs is an 1840 cityscape painting by the English artist J.M.W. Turner. [1] It depicts a view of Venice, then part of the Austrian Empire, looking towards the famous Bridge of Sighs. [2] The Doge's Palace and the City Prison are either side of the bridge. He displayed the painting at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition ...
The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge's English name was bestowed by Lord Byron in the 19th century as a translation from the Italian "Ponte dei sospiri", [2] [3] from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells.
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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
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Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom-House, Venice: Canaletti Painting label QS:Lfr,"Le pont des soupirs, le palais des doges et la douane, Venise. Canaletto peignant"