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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Grand Canal, Venice, with the Entrance to the Cannaregio Canal beside the Church of San Geremia; Gondolas near a Low Bridge 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Verso:
The Grand Canal, Venice, with the Entrance to the Cannaregio Canal beside the Church of San Geremia; Gondolas near a Low Bridge 1819
D14482
Turner Bequest CLXXV 87a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 185 mm
Partial watermark ‘Al | 18’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Turner scholar C.F. Bell annotated Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry (‘In the Cannaregio, with the Palazzo Labia and S. Geremia on the left, with the Ghetto in distance; also group of gondolas’): ‘Ponte della Gaglia in the middle’.1 Bell similarly marked the entry in Finberg’s 1930 In Venice with Turner.2
The main view, occupying two thirds of the page, continues across folio 89 recto opposite (D14483; Turner Bequest CLXXV 88). Looking north from the Grand Canal along the Riva di Biasio, in this part the Baroque church of San Geremia, then lacking its dome, is shown with the top of its campanile continued separately at the top left.
Finberg noted that this view and a few others on adjacent pages around the north-western end of the Grand Canal ‘complete Turner’s studies of this part of Venice’.3 For other drawings made in the vicinity and an overview of Turner’s coverage of Venice, see the sketchbook’s Introduction, and for more boats, see under folio 37 recto (D14383).

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
Undated MS note by C.F. Bell (died 1966) in copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.515.
2
Undated MS note by Bell (before 1936) in copy of Finberg 1930, Prints and Drawings Study Room, British Museum, London, p.166, as transcribed by Ian Warrell (undated notes, Tate catalogue files).
3
Finberg 1930, p.53.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Grand Canal, Venice, with the Entrance to the Cannaregio Canal beside the Church of San Geremia; Gondolas near a Low Bridge 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-grand-canal-venice-with-the-entrance-to-the-cannaregio-r1186595, accessed 29 March 2024.