In the 1982 Tate exhibition catalogue, David Solkin argued that topographical evidence does not support Wilson's inscribed title and that the drawing rather depicts part of the Giudecca from the Island of San Giorgio. In the 18th century, medieval towers of the type depicted no longer existed at St George's Gardens but were still to be seen along the eastern tip of the Giudecca, just across a canal from the small island of San Giorgio, from where Wilson presumably took his view.
