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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Bacino, Venice, from the Canale di San Marco, with San Giorgio Maggiore, Santa Maria della Salute and the Campanile of San Marco (St Mark's) 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Bacino, Venice, from the Canale di San Marco, with San Giorgio Maggiore, Santa Maria della Salute and the Campanile of San Marco (St Mark's)’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Recto:
The Bacino, Venice, from the Canale di San Marco, with San Giorgio Maggiore, Santa Maria della Salute and the Campanile of San Marco (St Mark’s) 1819
D14433
Turner Bequest CLXXV 62
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 185 mm
Partial watermark ‘Al | 18’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘62’ top right and ‘300’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXV 62’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view continues on folio 61 verso opposite (D14432). The Turner scholar C.F. Bell annotated Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry (‘Distant view of the Campanile and Doge’s Palace’): ‘and the Riva degli Schiavoni to right’.1 The viewpoint is a the furthest east of Turner’s stations along the Canale di San Marco, looking back from off the Giardini Pubblici, with the columns at the entrance to the Piazzetta on the left across the Bacino, the campanile and domes of St Mark’s rising above the Palazzo Ducale (Doge’s Palace) to the left of the moored ship, and domes and towers beyond the Riva degli Schiavoni on the right.
A smaller drawing encompassing the whole of a similar view is on folio 40 verso (D14390). 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

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Undated MS note by C.F. Bell (died 1966) in copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.514.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Bacino, Venice, from the Canale di San Marco, with San Giorgio Maggiore, Santa Maria della Salute and the Campanile of San Marco (St Mark’s) 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-bacino-venice-from-the-canale-di-san-marco-with-san-r1186545, accessed 20 September 2024.