Gouache and watercolour on paper
Venice: The Bacino, Canale della Giudecca and Canale di San Marco
Venice: The Bacino, Canale della Giudecca and Canale di San Marco
Venice, Austria and Southern Germany 1840
Venice, Austria and Southern Germany 1840
Italy
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Shipping Moored off Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore or Riva degli Schiavoni Venice
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
boat - non-specific
boat, gondola
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Italy
lagoon
places
seascapes and coasts
ship, sailing
society
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
Venice - non-specific
<p>Turner’s watercolours of Venetian exteriors are dominated by the interplay of brilliant golds, yellows, blues and turquoise. Architecture tends to be lightly traced in pencil or ink, dissolving into mist, reflections and radiant light. They revel in the ‘indistinctness’ for which he was being attacked in public, and assert the artist’s right to interpret the world in personal and poetic terms.</p><p>This watercolour may represent the scene behind Palladio’s church of S Giorgio Maggiore, which Turner painted repeatedly on his visit.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique gouache watercolour
26 May 2003 – 8 December 2003
2003-12-08
26 May 2003
2003-05-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-05-26
British Watercolours: Turner and his Contemporaries around 1840
Collection based display
Shipping Moored ?off the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore or the Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice
support: 246 × 305 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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<span class="text14">Turner’s <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolours</span></a> of Venetian </span><span class="text0">exteriors are dominated by the interplay </span><span class="text14">of brilliant golds, yellows, blues and </span><span class="text0">turquoise.      Architecture tends to be lightly </span><span class="text14">traced in      <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/graphite" title="Glossary definition for 'Graphite'"><span>pencil</span></a> or <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/ink" title="Glossary definition for 'Ink'"><span>ink</span></a>, dissolving into mist, reflections and radiant light. They      revel in the ‘indistinctness’ for which  he was being attacked      in public, and assert the artist’s right to interpret the </span><span class="text0">world in personal and poetic terms.  </span>
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<span class="text13">This watercolour may represent the scene </span><span class="text15">behind Palladio’s church of S Giorgio </span><span class="text16">Maggiore</span><span class="text13">, which </span><span class="text16">Turner</span><span class="text13"> painted repeatedly on his      visit.</span><span class="text0">
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architecture boat, gondola boat - non-specific cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Italy lagoon places seascapes and coasts ship, sailing society townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features transport: water Venice - non-specific
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