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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Basilica of San Marco (St Mark's), Venice, from the Piazzetta dei Leoni (Leoncini) 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Basilica of San Marco (St Mark's), Venice, from the Piazzetta dei Leoni (Leoncini)’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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The Basilica of San Marco (St Mark’s), Venice, from the Piazzetta dei Leoni (Leoncini) 1819
D14514
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 14a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Turner scholar C.F. Bell annotated Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry (‘S. Marco, from the Piazzetta dei Leoni’): ‘looking up the Piazza to the Royal Palace’.1 Bell marked Finberg’s similar text in In Venice with Turner (1930): ‘Looking up the Piazza, westwards’.2
This is a brief continuation of the full-page view on folio 15 recto opposite (D14515), showing the elaborate Porta dei Fiori on the north front of the basilica of San Marco (St Mark’s).

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.517.
2
Undated MS note by Bell (before 1936) in copy of Finberg 1930, Prints and Drawings Study Room, British Museum, London, p.167, as transcribed by Ian Warrell (undated notes, Tate catalogue files).

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Basilica of San Marco (St Mark’s), Venice, from the Piazzetta dei Leoni (Leoncini) 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-basilica-of-san-marco-st-marks-venice-from-the-piazzetta-r1186249, accessed 18 May 2024.