Venice: the Mouth of the Grand Canal looking East with Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana

The prototype upon the which this picture is closely based, was painted in the mid-1730's, and sold by Adrian Hope, Christie's, 30 June 1894, lot 19 (W.G. Constable, Canaletto, Oxford, 1962, no. 170(b)2; also the catalogue for the exhibition Canaletto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, 17 Oct.-15 Nov. 1964, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 4 Dec.-10 Jan. 1965 and Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 29-Jan.-28 Feb. 1965, p. 64, no. 24, illustrated, in the collection of Mrs. Ingalls, New York). The copyist added the small dog and the single figure looking at the viewer in the lower right foreground.