Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Grand Canal, Venice, with the Rialto Bridge and the Campanile of San Bartolomeo

1840

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Venice and Botzen Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 123 × 173 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D31863
Turner Bequest CCCXIII 37 a

Catalogue entry

This very slight view, made with the page turned horizontally, shows the long-familiar sight of the Rialto Bridge to the north-east along the Grand Canal, from about level with San Silvestro, with the campanile of San Bartolomeo just south-east of the bridge at the centre. Compare for example the elaborate study of the scene from Turner’s first visit, in the 1819 Milan to Venice sketchbook (Tate D14406; Turner Bequest CLXXV 48a), and a loose watercolour study from 1840’s Grand Canal and Giudecca book (D32118; CCCXV 2).
There is a similarly rapid view in the opposite direction, likely from about the same point on folio 38 recto opposite (D31864).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

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