Photograph of the Palazzo Reale (today Procuratie Nuove), ballroom, South side of Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. This object forms part of a selection of photographs that have been collected, commissioned or acquired by John Wharlton Bunney throughout the 1870s until the 1880s. Bunney may have bought this photograph in April 1875 before or after the King of Italy Emmanuel II and the Emperor of Austria visited Venice. He did a preparatory drawing (Ruskin Collection, Sheffield) of the ballroom either on 3 April 1875 before the ball for the royal visit to the palaca or on the evening of the ball on 5 April 1875. He sent a ballroom drawing and one of the arrival of the royal procession at the Royal Palace (Palazzo Reale) in special gondolas to the Illustrated London News on 10 April 1875, and three more on 15 April, but none was published (the magazine instead used those sent by an artist in Rome called H. Cook.