This etching shows the Arrival Procession of the Festa della Madonna della Salute in front of the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute at the mouth of the Grand Canal in Venice. Sir Frank Brangwyn made multiple images of Venice, including two others showing the church of Santa Maria della Salute that are also in the William Morris Gallery’s Collection. The festival of Santa Maria della Salute is held every year in Venice on 21st November, and comemmorates the end of a plague that devastated Venice bewteen 1630 and 1631.
