Finberg subsequently annotated his 1909
Inventory entry (‘The Ducal Palace and Riva degli Schiavoni from the Canal, with sketches of the Salute’): ‘Doge’s Pal., Prigione, Danielis, with S Zaccaria (?), & S. Giorgio dei Greci; also Salute & Campanile’.
1 In another copy he wrote: ‘B Sighs. Prison &c’.
2 The Turner scholar C.F. Bell marked a further copy: ‘opposite the prison’ after ‘Canal’.
3Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the view is north from the Bacino with the Doge’s Palace at the left of the main view, with the Riva degli Schiavoni waterfront running east, including the New Prison left of centre, the Hotel Danieli right of centre, and at the far right the west end and campanile of the church of San Zaccaria, repeated towards the top right to include its dome too. The church is now partly obscured by tall buildings.
The main drawing is actually the right-hand part of a three-page panorama, albeit one which is effectively impossible to view all at once. It continues on folios 57 verso and 58 verso (
D14424,
D14426),
4 looking to the north-west, with the campanile of St Mark’s and to the west with Santa Maria della Salute respectively. Turner would have had to roll or almost fold back each page successively so that its outer edge would meet the preceding gutter, where the architecture matches precisely in each case.
At the top left is a slight sketch of the church of Santa Maria della Salute, seen to the north from the Giudecca Canal, with the outline of the campanile of St Mark’s in the distance to its north-east, complementing the less regular pointed shapes of the sails to its left.
For other drawings made in the vicinity and an overview of Turner’s coverage of Venice, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.
