Venice, Accademia di Belle Arti, 1865, as Piazza di S. Marco nelle prime ore dell'ultima notte di carnevale nel 1865.As Fadiga indicated, Zanin moved on from copying Canaletto to executing original compositions in an eighteenth century manner with figures in period costume, such as The Punta di Dogana, Venice, with the Regatta in Honour of Edward, Duke of York, 4 June 1764 of 1865 (Art Market, 2003-4 and 2015), and The Bucintoro returning to the Molo on Ascension Day, dated 1888 (Christie's, London, 14 June 1996, lot 132). A variant of that painting is in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria attributed to Canaletto, but would seem to be also the work of Zanin ( Vancouver Art Gallery, Musée du Québec, and Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 18th Century Venetian Art in Canadian Collections, 1989-90, no. 21, illustrated in color). Like his copies, these are (or were) usually prominently signed in red, and in exhibitions they were often described as 'Imitation of Canaletto' to distinguish them from those listed as 'Copy after Canaletto