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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Canalside or Waterfront Buildings, Venice 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Canalside or Waterfront Buildings, Venice’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Verso:
Canalside or Waterfront Buildings, Venice 1840
D31913
Turner Bequest CCCXIII 62a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 123 x 173 mm
Partial watermark ‘atman’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight subject, apparently showing waterfront buildings and the masts of moored shipping, has yet to be specifically identified; it falls among others drawn around the entrance to the Grand Canal and from off the quays further east.
Technical notes:
There is some rubbing and slight offsetting from the drawing on folio 63 recto opposite (D31914) at the top right.

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Canalside or Waterfront Buildings, Venice 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-canalside-or-waterfront-buildings-venice-r1196808, accessed 05 April 2026.