The Riva Schiavoni at Venice, Italy. The photographer is looking east-by-south along the road from in front of the Doge's Palace showing the piers for passenger launches, ferries and tugs. The column fronted Chiesa Santa Maria della Pieta is on the left. At moorings in the San Marco Basin and seen from off her port quarter is the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cruise ship Viceroy of India (1929).