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to clothe the naked
A label on the verso reads 'Lady Ellenborough'
The sensual nature of the picture
not necessarily by the same artist
1762 the picture recorded in 1791-2 is probably identical or similar to one of the portraits tentatively identified as her (Mannings and Postle
The Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day Animals to clothe the nakedThe 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
