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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana, Venice, from the Bacino, with the Redentore and San Giacomo on the Giudecca in the Distance 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana, Venice, from the Bacino, with the Redentore and San Giacomo on the Giudecca in the Distance’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Verso:
Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana, Venice, from the Bacino, with the Redentore and San Giacomo on the Giudecca in the Distance 1819
D14516
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 15a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?C...]’ bottom left, and ‘Red[?entore]’ and ‘St Jacomo’ towards bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view continues across folio 16 recto opposite (D14517), where the view is west from the Bacino across the start of the Giudecca Canal, with the Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute. Here the scene continues south-west across to the Giudecca, with the dome of the church of the Redentore and the campanile of the adjacent church of San Giacomo, which was suppressed in 1806 and demolished in 1837.1
The subject relates closely to the more detailed rendering in the contemporary Milan to Venice sketchbook (Tate D14338–D14339; Turner Bequest CLXXV 64a–65). For other drawings made in the vicinity, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Matthew Imms
March 2017

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For history and images see Jeff Cotton, ‘The Lost Churches’, The Churches of Venice, accessed 4 January 2017, http://churchesofvenice.co.uk/demolished.htm#giud.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana, Venice, from the Bacino, with the Redentore and San Giacomo on the Giudecca in the Distance 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, July 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-santa-maria-della-salute-and-the-dogana-venice-from-the-r1186251, accessed 19 September 2024.