Sam’s notebook:
Great Council Chamber,  Ducal Palace. Immediately at right of the door as you enter, in the big picture  over
the book shelves, is a fisherman in the foreground in a green dress  holding one basket of fish against his
body & resting another basket of  fish on a woman’s head. This Fisherman has but one leg—but that is not
the  singularity, but the fact that it is the port leg, attached to the starboard  side of his body [MTNJ 2:  199-
200]. Note: Sam evaluated several  other paintings in like manner.