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
Turner Bequest CLXXV 87a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 185 mm
Partial watermark ‘Al | 18’
Partial watermark ‘Al | 18’
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Exhibition history
2003
Turner and Venice, Tate Britain, London, October 2003–January 2004, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, February–May 2004, Museo Correr, Venice, September 2004–January 2005, Fundació ”la Caixa”, Barcelona, March–June 2005 (76, as ‘The Cannaregio Canal, with the Palazzo Labia and San Geremia on the Left, with the Ghetto in the Distance, from the Grand Canal; also a Group of Gondolas’, reproduced in colour).
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.515, CLXXV 87a, as ‘In the Cannaregio, with the Palazzo Labia and S. Geremia on the left, with the Ghetto in distance; also group of gondolas’.
1930
A.J. Finberg, In Venice with Turner, London 1930, pp.53, 166 as ‘The Mouth of the Cannaregio’.
2003
Ian Warrell, David Laven, Jan Morris and others, Turner and Venice, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2003, p. 271 no.76, as ‘The Cananaregio Canal, with the Palazzo Labia and San Geremia on the Left, with the Ghetto in the Distance, from the Grand Canal; also a Group of Gondolas’, fig.72 (colour).
2005
Ian Warrell, Cecilia Powell and David Laven, Turner i Venècia, exhibition catalogue, Fundació ”la Caixa”, Barcelona 2005, p.84 no.16, as ‘El Cannaregio des del Gran Canal, amb el palau Labia i San Geremia a l’esquerra i el gueto al lluny, i també un grup de gòndoles’, reproduced in colour.
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
Undated MS note by C.F. Bell (died 1966) in copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.515.
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