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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Grand Canal, Venice, with the Fondaco dei Turchi; ?a Copy of a Painting with a Figure among Trees 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Grand Canal, Venice, with the Fondaco dei Turchi; ?a Copy of a Painting with a Figure among Trees’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Recto:
The Grand Canal, Venice, with the Fondaco dei Turchi; ?a Copy of a Painting with a Figure among Trees 1819
D14485
Turner Bequest CLXXV 89
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 185 mm
Partial watermark ‘Al | 18’
Inscribed by Turner ‘[?Rus...]’ centre right, on building
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘89’ bottom left, upside down and ‘300’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CLXXV 89’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a brief continuation of the full-page view of the
Fondaco dei Turchi south-east across the Grand Canal on folio 89 verso opposite (D14484; Turner Bequest CLXXV 88a). The waterside arcade lightly indicated in the foreground here belongs to the Palazzo Gritti. For other drawings made in the vicinity and an overview of Turner’s coverage of Venice, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.
Turned vertically, the rest of the page is taken up by a loose drawing of a robed, gesturing figure among trees. This appears to be a copy of an as yet undetermined painting; see under folio 40 verso (D14390) for Turner’s studies of artworks in Venice.

Matthew Imms
March 2017

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Grand Canal, Venice, with the Fondaco dei Turchi; ?a Copy of a Painting with a Figure among Trees 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-grand-canal-venice-with-the-fondaco-dei-turchi-a-copy-of-r1186598, accessed 06 January 2025.