Provenance: Vicars Cross, Chester, England, collection George Folliott; his sale at London, auction, (Sotheby), 14 May, 1930, lot 58 (as A. Canaletto, ca. 1740), bought by Colnaghi for 2,700 pounds sterling; London, Colnaghi (dealer); New York, Jacob M. Heimann (dealer-1940), from whom purchased for the DIA in Dec., 1940 with gift of funds from Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb., Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb