The present painting is based on the composition by Antonio Canaletto (W. G. Constable, Canaletto, 1989, I, pl. 51; II, p. 311, no. 251) in the collection of H. M. The Queen at Windsor which was engraved by Antonio Visentini in his Urbis Venetiarium Prospectus Celebriores of 1742 as plate X in Part I