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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping on the Bacino, Venice 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping on the Bacino, Venice’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
Shipping on the Bacino, Venice 1840
D31808
Turner Bequest CCCXIII 9a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 123 x 173 mm
Partial watermark ‘tman’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with calculation top right (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. In the context of the sequence of topographical views on adjacent pages, the rapidly rendered vessels here are presumably moored in the Bacino. Beyond to the left appears to be a shallow roof at the end of a horizontal line which likely indicates waterfront buildings.
Above is a typically provisional calculation in pencil, along the lines of:
    24 | 500 [?S]
12011

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Shipping on the Bacino, Venice 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-shipping-on-the-bacino-venice-r1196702, accessed 17 July 2024.