J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana, Venice, from the Bacino, with the Redentore and San Giacomo on the Giudecca in the Distance 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana, Venice, from the Bacino, with the Redentore and San Giacomo on the Giudecca in the Distance’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana, Venice, from the Bacino, with the Redentore and San Giacomo on the Giudecca in the Distance 1819
D14517
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 16
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘16’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVI – 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view is west from the Bacino across the start of the Giudecca Canal, with the Dogana at the centre and the entrance to the Grand Canal to the right. Loosely indicated beyond the Dogana are the domes of the church of Santa Maria della Salute. The view continues south-west across to the Giudecca and its churches on folio 15 verso opposite (D14516). The Turner scholar C.F. Bell annotated Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry (‘Dogana and S. Maria della Salute’): ‘from off the point’.1 Bell marked Finberg’s similar text in In Venice with Turner (1930): ‘from a boat off the point’.2
The subject relates closely to the more detailed rendering in the contemporary Milan to Venice sketchbook (Tate D14338–D14339; Turner Bequest CLXXV 64a–65). For other drawings made in the vicinity, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
Undated MS note by C.F. Bell (died 1966) in copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.517.
2
Undated MS note by Bell (before 1936) in copy of Finberg 1930, Prints and Drawings Study Room, British Museum, London, p.167, as transcribed by Ian Warrell (undated notes, Tate catalogue files).

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana, Venice, from the Bacino, with the Redentore and San Giacomo on the Giudecca in the Distance 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, July 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-santa-maria-della-salute-and-the-dogana-venice-from-the-r1186252, accessed 26 April 2024.