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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Waterfront Buildings and Trees near the Giardini Pubblici, Venice 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Waterfront Buildings and Trees near the Giardini Pubblici, Venice’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Waterfront Buildings and Trees near the Giardini Pubblici, Venice 1833
D31954
Turner Bequest CCCXIV 15
Pencil on white laid paper, 109 x 203 mm
Inscribed by C.F. Bell in black ink ‘15’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCXIV – 15’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. The isolated subject, with a cluster of buildings and what seem to be trees, has been plausibly suggested by Ian Warrell as a continuation from the foreground of the upper part of the panorama of Venice from the Canale di San Marco on folio 14 verso opposite (D31953), with its viewpoint near the Giardini Pubblici, where the waterfront was then otherwise characterised by boatyards.1
The present sketch falls within what was perhaps a single waterborne excursion (folios 10 verso–24 recto; D31945–D31972) out towards the gardens at the eastern end of the city and then westwards across the Lagoon along the southern shores of the islands of San Giorgio Maggiore and the Giudecca, before turning back for the Bacino along the Canale della Giudecca. For this sketchbook’s somewhat convoluted general sequence, see its Introduction.

Matthew Imms
May 2019

1
Draft notes of 2010–11, Tate cataloguing files.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Waterfront Buildings and Trees near the Giardini Pubblici, Venice 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-waterfront-buildings-and-trees-near-the-giardini-pubblici-r1203632, accessed 22 July 2024.