The Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day Animals has at length here attained

has at length here attained to the honour of originality'

Above the podium of the temple

He probably first trained with his father and is said to have also studied with Frans Hals

A label on the verso reads 'Lady Ellenborough'

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The Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day Animals has at length here attainedThe Bucentaur, or 'Bucintoro' was the great Venetian vessel of state. Every year on Ascension Day, the doge left the Molo and put out into the Adriatic to perform the ceremony of the symbolic Wedding of Venice to the Sea by casting a gold ring into the water. Market stalls have been set up in the Piazzetta for the event. The barge shown here on its return to land was the last 'Bucintoro', built in 1724 and destroyed when Napoleon overthrew the