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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Campanile of the Church of San Martino, Venice 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Campanile of the Church of San Martino, Venice’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Recto:
The Campanile of the Church of San Martino, Venice 1833
D32062
Turner Bequest CCCXIV 72
Pencil on white laid paper, 109 x 203 mm
Partial watermark: crescent moon with face in profile
Inscribed by C.F. Bell in black ink ‘72’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCXIV – 72’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Turner scholar C.F. Bell annotated Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry (‘Buildings – “St. Trinite.”’): ‘Junction of 2 canals gateway of Arsenal on the left’.1 Turned horizontally, this part of the double-page view is limited to a continuation of the top of the campanile of San Martino, near the Arsenale, as shown on folio 71 verso opposite (D32061), under which the subject is discussed, along with Turner’s inscription there.
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Undated MS note by Bell (died 1966) in copy of Finberg 1909, Prints and Drawings Room, Tate Britain, II, p.1015.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
May 2019

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Campanile of the Church of San Martino, Venice 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-campanile-of-the-church-of-san-martino-venice-r1203739, accessed 14 May 2025.