Oil paint on wood
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Works with images
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A Venetian Lyric
Presented by Mrs Frank Gibson 1918
architecture
boat - non-specific
canal
church
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
dome
features
industrial
Italy
natural phenomena
places
religious
smoke
society
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
Venice, Giudecca
Venice, Redentore
painting oil paint wood
A Venetian Lyric
support: 241 × 400 mm
frame: 490 × 630 × 80 mm
Presented by Mrs Frank Gibson 1918
<p><b>N03275</b> A VENETIAN LYRIC (?) 1900–10</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Studd’ b.r.
<br/>Oil on wood, 9 1/2×15 3/4 (24×40).</p>
<p><i>Coll:</i> Presented by Mrs Frank Gibson 1918.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Alpine Club Gallery, June 1911 (? 37), repr. as ‘The Temple of Vulcan’.</p>
<p>A view of the church of the Redentore on the Giudecca, Venice, as seen from a boat just before reaching the landing-stage of the Zitelle <i>en route</i> for S. Giorgio Maggiore. Eight <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> entitled ‘A Venetian Lyric’, lettered A-H, were included in the Alpine Club exhibition (Nos. 4, 9, 50–5), although <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/studd-a-venetian-lyric-n03275" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03275</span></a> was reproduced over the title ‘The Temple of Vulcan’ and this title appears in French and English on two labels stuck to the back of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/panel" title="Glossary definition for 'Panel'"><span>panel</span></a>. On one of these labels ‘The Temple of Vulcan’ has been deleted and ‘A Venetian Lyric’ substituted in its place. A similar alteration occurs in the Tate Gallery Minutes, March 1918. It is just possible that the artist was alluding to the smoking chimneys in the neighbourhood of the Redentore, but this seems somewhat fanciful, and probably to avoid ambiguity the title was afterwards changed.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-05T00:00:00
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architecture boat - non-specific canal church cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents dome features industrial Italy natural phenomena places religious smoke society townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features transport: water Venice, Giudecca Venice, Redentore