Given by Ruskin to Oxford University in 1861. Like the 'Venice: Calm at Sunrise', which Ruskin included in his gift of twenty-five Turner drawings to Cambridge University shortly after the gift to Oxford, this and the two other Venetian watercolours in the Ashmolean Museum seem to date from Turner's final visit to Venice in 1840 and are similar in type and size to the series in the Turner Bequest. It has been supposed that they were extracted from the roll sketchbook T.B.CCCXV, but Turner probably made use of numerous books of the same type, which were broken up and dispersed among friends and patrons, or left among the many miscellaneous Venetian drawings in his studio (T.B.CCCXVI).