Here is the very attractive Palazzo Morosini, or Brandolin, which dates from the fourteenth century.
Next is a dull house, and then a small one with little lions on the balustrades, and then the Rio S.Cassiano.Next is a tiny and very ancient palace with an inscription stating that the Venetian painter Favretto worked there; then a calle, and the great pawnshop of Venice, once the Palazzo Corner della Regina, is before us, with a number of its own boats inside the handsome blue municipal posts with S.Mark's lion on each.

The Queen of Cyprus was born here; other proud and commanding Corners were splendid here; and now it is a pawnshop! The Calle della Regina, two rather nice, neglected houses (the little pink one quite charming), and we come to the Rio Pesaro and the splendid Palazzo Pesaro, one of the great works of Longhena.

Note its fluted pillars and rich stonework.

This palace we may enter, for it is now the Tate Gallery of Venice, housing, below, a changing exhibition of contemporary art, and, above, a permanent collection, to which additions are constantly being made, of modern Italian painting.

Foreign artists are admitted too, and my eyes were gladdened by Mr.Nicholson's "Nancy," a landscape by Mr.E.A.Walton, a melon-seller by Mr.Brangwyn, a lady in pink by Mr.Lavery, and a fisherman by Mr.Cayley Robinson.