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CANALETTO (VENICE 1697-VENICE 1768)
La Torre di Malghera
c 1740RCIN 807794
The Torre di Malghera or Marghera is an isolated fifteenth-century fortification on the edge of the Venetian lagoon. Canaletto shows the tower surrounded by fishermen at work and figures washing clothes in the water.