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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Palazzo Labia on the Cannaregio Canal, Venice; the Traghetto at San Geremia on the Grand Canal 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Palazzo Labia on the Cannaregio Canal, Venice; the Traghetto at San Geremia on the Grand Canal’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Recto:
The Palazzo Labia on the Cannaregio Canal, Venice; the Traghetto at San Geremia on the Grand Canal 1833
D32021
Turner Bequest CCCXIV 49
Pencil on white laid paper, 109 x 203 mm
Inscribed by C.F. Bell in black ink ‘49’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCXIV – 49’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These two slight, selective studies were made side-by-side with the page turned horizontally. Folio 48 verso opposite (D32020) is a clear view of the Ponte dei Tre Archi towards the Lagoon end of the Cannaregio Canal. Ian Warrell has identified the subjects here as nearby, at the southern end of the canal where it meets the Grand Canal:1 on the right, part of the Palazzo Labia (apparently its heavily rusticated and articulated Baroque south end, facing the small campo outside the later east entrance to the adjoining church of San Geremia); and, on the left, a looser view relating to the former gondola landing near the south end of the church, facing the Grand Canal. Compare the detailed view northwards to the church and palace in the 1819 Milan to Venice sketchbook (Tate D14482–D14483; Turner Bequest CLXXV 87a–88), and the similar prospect on folio 81 recto here (D32020).
Folio 57 verso (D32038) is another loose sketch identified as a Cannaregio subject. For this sketchbook’s somewhat convoluted general sequence, see its Introduction.

Matthew Imms
May 2019

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Draft notes of 2010–11, Tate cataloguing files.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Palazzo Labia on the Cannaregio Canal, Venice; the Traghetto at San Geremia on the Grand Canal 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-palazzo-labia-on-the-cannaregio-canal-venice-the-r1203699, accessed 16 July 2025.