THIS DRAWING RELATES CLOSELY TO TWO PICTURES BY GUARDI, ONE IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON, NO. 2320 (MORASSI, NO. 772), THE OTHER FORMERLY IN THE MAKOWER COLLECTION. BOTH ARE LATE WORKS: MORASSI DESCRIBES THE FORMER AS A WORK 'DI SCINTILLANTE FANTASIA POETICA'. THE LARGE CHIMNEY ON THE RIGHT IN THE DRAWING APPEARS ONLY IN THE MAKOWER VERSION, WHICH IS THE LARGER OF THE PICTURES: THE WHITE HIGHLIGHTS CORRESPOND WITH THE CLOUDS IN THIS. A THIRD, SIMPLIFIED, CANVAS IS RECORDED IN THE LORENZELLI COLLECTION, BERGAMO

PICTURES BY GUARDI OF THE SAME VIEW ARE IN THE ACCADEMIA, VENICE, THE JOHNSON COLLECTION, PHILADELPHIA, THYSSEN COLLECTION, THE SELIGMANN COLLECTION, NEW YORK, WITH THE TOOTH GALLERY, LONDON AND PRIVATE COLLECTION, PARIS DATED BY MORASSI TO THE PERIOD 1770-80, A. MORASSI, GUARDI, I DIPINTI, VENICE, 1984, I, NOS.579-83, II, FIGS.552-9. THE PRESENT STUDY IS PERHAPS MOST CLOSELY RELATED WITH THE THYSSEN PICTURE (MORASSI,NO.580)