An unfinished Venetian scene in Turner's standard three-foot, four-foot size, used for some exhibited examples in 1834 and 1835 but not in the 1840s, the probable date of this picture. It is typical of a number of Turner's later works in the way in which the spectator is drawn into the picture between serried rows of staring faces, running the gauntlet, as it were, of the frenzied inhabitants of Turner's imaginative world.