Stucco again injures the Palazzo Foscari, which has a pretty relief of the Madonna and Child; then we come to a calle and the Ca' d'Oro steamboat station for passengers going towards the railway.
An ugly yellow building comes next, and then the fine dingy Palazzo Michiel dalle Colonne with brown posts and ten columns, now the property of Count Antonio Dona dalle Rose, who permits visitors to see it in his absence.

It is the first palace since we left the Scalzi that looks as if it were in rightful hands.

The principal attraction is its tapestry, some of which is most charming, particularly a pattern of plump and impish cherubs among vines and grapes, which the cicerone boldly attributes to Rubens, but Baedeker to one of his pupils.

Whoever the designer, he had an agreeable and robust fancy and a sure hand.

The palace seems to have more rooms than its walls can contain, all possessing costly accessories and no real beauty.