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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, with the Church and Campanile 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, with the Church and Campanile’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Recto:
The Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, with the Church and Campanile 1819
D14443
Turner Bequest CLXXV 67
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 185 mm
Partial watermark ‘lee | 13’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘67’ bottom left, upside down and ‘300’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CLXXV 67’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a brief continuation of shipping off the north end of the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, seen to the east-south-east across the Bacino in the full-page drawing on folio 66 verso opposite (D14442).

Matthew Imms
March 2017

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, with the Church and Campanile 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-the-isola-di-san-giorgio-maggiore-venice-with-the-church-and-r1186555, accessed 26 April 2024.