Venetian School, 18th Century

The tip of the lower left corner is missing and made up, above this traces of two old folds. Two light-gray stains, one very small above the mast of the boats, one very tiny light brown stain on top of the sculpture and another bigger light beige stain almost invisible, to the right of the composition. Little surface dirt towards the top margin. Overall pen and ink fresh.
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This capriccio bears close similarities with certain drawings by the Venetian landscape painter Marco Ricci, for example, A Ruined Portico beside a Port.¹   This comparison can best be made with those of Ricci's studies which are more loosely executed, with the addition of wash, and somet.mes s with sections executed solely in black chalk, which are relatively rare and less well-known.  The drawing is an imaginary view and could have been part of a sketchbook.

1.  Windsor Castle, Royal collects ion, inv. no. 5879; A. Blunt and E. Croft-Murray, Venetian Drawings...at Windsor Castle, London 1957, p. 39, no. 121, reproduced plate 57