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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Rio di San Moisè, Venice, with the Dogana in the Distance beyond the Grand Canal 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Rio di San Moisè, Venice, with the Dogana in the Distance beyond the Grand Canal’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
The Rio di San Moisè, Venice, with the Dogana in the Distance beyond the Grand Canal 1840
D31813
Turner Bequest CCCXIII 12
Pencil on cream wove paper, 123 x 173 mm
Partial watermark ‘J. Wh’
Inscribed by Turner ‘Ponte Eramo’ bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘12’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCXIII – 12’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, the view is south along the Rio di San Moisè to its opening at the entrance to the Grand Canal, with the porch of the Dogana on the far side. The buildings on the left have been replaced by the frontage of a large modern hotel in a simplified Venetian palazzo idiom, and there appears to be no trace of what Turner seems to label the ‘Ponte Eramo’ in the foreground.
There is another view in the same direction from further north on folio 11 recto (D31811).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Rio di San Moisè, Venice, with the Dogana in the Distance beyond the Grand Canal 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-rio-di-san-moise-venice-with-the-dogana-in-the-distance-r1196707, accessed 17 July 2024.