A bridge over a mountainous landscape (recto); View of the Piazza San Marco towards San Geminiano (verso)

According to Morassi, this drawing can be related to a group executed by Guardi after a trip to the Trentino region in the fall of 1778. Guardi's family had property in Val di Sole, and the 1778 visit was his first since his youth. For other drawings made during that trip see Morassi, op. cit., nos. 416-18, figs. 417-420a). These sketches were made into more elaborated compositions when he returned to his studio. Guardi made another drawing in pen, ink and wash of the same view as on the verso of the present sheet which is in the Musée Petit Palais, Paris (Morassi, op. cit., no. 328, fig. 331).