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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A View on the Canale della Giudecca, Venice; a Bridge and Campanile 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A View on the Canale della Giudecca, Venice; a Bridge and Campanile’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
A View on the Canale della Giudecca, Venice; a Bridge and Campanile 1840
D31293
Turner Bequest CCCX 9
Pencil on cream wove paper, 126 x 198 mm
Partial watermark ‘J. Wha’
Inscribed by Turner ‘R’ right of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘9’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCX – 9’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally both ways, the main view is of a Venice waterfront beyond moored boats, which Ian Warrell has noted as the last of a short sequence of Canale della Giudecca sketches (folios 6 verso–9 recto; D31288–D31293).1 The rather cursory treatment of the distant dome, campanile and other selected details makes the precise subject uncertain. Above is a thumbnail sketch of a small bridge with a tower beyond, likely made in the vicinity of the first view.
As noted in the sketchbook’s Introduction, the Venice views on its early pages are intermingled with German sketches from Turner’s return journey.

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Warrell 2003, pp.179, 264 note 4.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A View on the Canale della Giudecca, Venice; a Bridge and Campanile 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-view-on-the-canale-della-giudecca-venice-a-bridge-and-r1196083, accessed 16 April 2024.