Turner exhibited no fewer than eighteen small Venetian scenes of this size at the Royal Academy between 1840 and 1846 (and one rather larger example). These two pictures from the Turner Bequest, only recently revealed by cleaning, are presumably lay-ins for further works for exhibition; luckily for us, in view of the rather turgid effect of most of the later exhibits, they were not carried any further. The first seems to show the Madonna della Salute seen along the Grand Canal from near the present Academia bridge; another view of the Salute, from the opposite direction, was one of the 1844 exhibits (Tate Gallery 539). It has not been possible to identify the other view.