The church on the right is a reminiscence of San Giovanni e Paolo, Venice while the central brick campanile is of conventional Venetian type. The building on the left, with a loggia at first floor level and the open barn below, also appears in a drawing by Canaletto at Windsor, W.G. Constable and J.G. Links, Canaletto, Oxford, 1976, I, no. 707, II, pl. 129, the motif of a statue on the corner of an outbuilding also appears in this. The Windsor drawing is dated to the mid 1760s by T.Pignatti, Canaletto, Selected Drawings, Pennsylvania, 1970, no. LXIV, but cannot postdate 1763 when Smith's collection was acquired for King George III: a date in the early 1760s seems likely and the present drawing may also be of this period