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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, from the Bacino, with the Church of San Zaccaria, the Campanile of San Giorgio dei Greci and the Church of Santa Maria della Pietà 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, from the Bacino, with the Church of San Zaccaria, the Campanile of San Giorgio dei Greci and the Church of Santa Maria della Pietà’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
The Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, from the Bacino, with the Church of San Zaccaria, the Campanile of San Giorgio dei Greci and the Church of Santa Maria della Pietà 1840
D31807
Turner Bequest CCCXIII 9
Pencil on cream wove paper, 123 x 173 mm
Partial watermark ‘tman’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘9’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCXIII – 9’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, the view is north from the Bacino, with the dome and campanile of San Zaccaria to the left above the Riva degli Schiavoni. Taller waterfront buildings now largely obscure the church apart from its dome. Near the centre the campanile of San Giorgio dei Greci is shown up the Rio dei Greci, and to the right is the then incomplete classical façade of the Pietà church, with its columns only half-finished as seen for example in a contemporary watercolour (Tate D32154; Turner Bequest CCCXVI 17).
This is an enlarged version, albeit in no greater detail, of the right-hand part of the view on folio 8 verso opposite (D31806). Compare also folio 50 verso (D31889).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, from the Bacino, with the Church of San Zaccaria, the Campanile of San Giorgio dei Greci and the Church of Santa Maria della Pietà 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-the-riva-degli-schiavoni-venice-from-the-bacino-with-the-r1196701, accessed 09 May 2024.