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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Dogana, Seminario and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, from the Molo 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Dogana, Seminario and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, from the Molo’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
The Dogana, Seminario and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, from the Molo 1819
D14405
Turner Bequest CLXXV 48
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 185 mm
Partial watermark ‘lee | 13’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘48’ top right and ‘300’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXV 48’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg subsequently annotated his 1909 Inventory entry (‘Blank’): ‘Not. Some slight sketches’.1 The most recognisable elements in this slight outline sketch are the domes of Santa Maria della Salute, as Ian Warrell noted,2 with the tower of the Seminario Patriarcale to their left and the porch of the Dogana schematically rendered towards the left. The viewpoint is the Molo at or near the entrance to the Piazzetta, looking south-west.
For other drawings made in the vicinity and an overview of Turner’s coverage of Venice, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
Undated MS note by A.J. Finberg (died 1939) in interleaved copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.513.
2
Undated notes in Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Dogana, Seminario and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, from the Molo 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-the-dogana-seminario-and-santa-maria-della-salute-venice-r1186518, accessed 18 April 2024.