The Giudecca Venice by Joseph Mallord William Turner Antique Picture 1910 #54

Description: The Giudecca, Venice by Joseph Mallord William Turner Antique Print 1910A colour print from a disbound art book from 1910. The reverse side is blank. Suitable for framing, the actual picture size is approx 10.375" x 6.875" or 26.5 cm x 17.5 cm printed on textured paper and one side mounted to heavyweight textured paper which forms a border. Page size including border mount approx 12.375" x 8.875" This is an antique print from 1910 not a modern copy and does show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print including foxing or marks on the surrounding mount. Please view the scans as they form part of the description. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text taken from the opposite page. Please note this cannot be supplied with the print. Any spelling errors are due to the OCR program used. THE GIUDECCA, VENICE By J. M. W. TURNER, R.A. (1775-1851) IN THE LEICESTER ART GALLERY It was in 1833 that Turner's first picture of Venice was exhibited, a picture that was purchased by Mr. Vernon for 200 guineas—a transaction which drew from the artist the comment, "If they will have scraps they must pay for them." Venice to Turner seemed a city of enchantment, and all his paintings of "the glorious city by the sea" betray the spell which it cast upon him. "At Venice," says Ruskin, "he found freedom of space, brilliancy of light, variety of colour, massy simplicity of general form and to Venice we owe many of the motives in which his highest powers of colour have been displayed." That Turner idealised his pictures of Venice is an accepted fact. It is recorded that on one occasion he and Clarkson Stanfield made a sketch on the Giudecca Canal almost from the same spot. Stanfield's was accurate in every particular, but Turner played pranks with the actualities—he adapted the scene to his imagination—and yet his picture was essentially the most like of the two. The two canvases are now in the National Gallery—Stanfield's "Venice The Canal of the Giudecca" (No. 407), and Turner's "Approach to Venice Looking towards Fusina" (No. 534). "The sun is God" were almost the last words that Turner uttered, and he certainly did all he could to honour and glorify his deity in his work. No other painter of any age or country ever painted sunlight as he did, but no one ever studied its effects, its beauty and its glory as he did. The Giudecca is the name given to an island off Venice on account, it is said, of the number of Jews who inhabited it : it is separated from the city by the Giudecca Canal, which in olden days formed the main passage of approach for travellers from Fusina. The island is now given up to the poorer citizens of Venice. This picture was loaned by the South Kensington authorities to the Leicester Gallery at its institution, and has remained there ever since.

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