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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Dazio Grande

Maker

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)

Title

Dazio Grande

Year

1843

Medium

  • Watercolor applied with a brush,
  • and graphite

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Watercolor applied with a brush,
  • and graphite

Materials

watercolor, pen and ink

Dimensions

Sheet: 24.1 x 29.7 cm (9 1/2 x 11 11/16 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mr. Richard Brown Baker in memory of his parents, Harvey and Marion Baker

Object Number

84.080

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Publications

  • Books

Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection

Exhibition History

Made in the UK
Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection
Sep 23, 2011 – Jan 08, 2012
Rapid Gestures
Waterfalls in British Romantic Art
Dec 18, 2009 – Jun 06, 2010
Luminous Landscapes
British Watercolors from the Museum's Collection
May 27, 2005 – Aug 14, 2005

Label copy

This is from a group of “sample studies” that Turner made in 1842 in Switzerland while enroute to Italy in order to obtain commissions for a group of ten large-scale fully-worked watercolors. These diaphanous wash studies were all done in a soft-cover sketchbook that Turned would roll up and carry in his pocket.

When John Ruskin, the great art critic, heard of Turner’s death, he wrote immediately to his father telling him to look for this work, and he even drew a picture of it from memory in the letter. While Ruskin initially found the preparatory drawings from Switzerland “beautiful but sketchy and imperfect” (quoted in Ian Warrell, Through Switzerland with Turner: Ruskin ’s First Selection from the Turner Bequest. London: 1995, p. 13), by the end of Turner’s life, Ruskin recognized them as the best works through which to understand Turner. The sheet was acquired by Ruskin, and when he exhibited it in an 1878 exhibition, he described it as a view from the Italian side of St. Gotthard Pass, two miles above Faido (in 1845, Ruskin had retraced Turner ’s trip through St. Gotthard Pass).

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Dazio Grande, 1843
Watercolor applied with a brush, and graphite
Sheet: 24.1 x 29.7 cm (9 1/2 x 11 11/16 inches)
Gift of Mr. Richard Brown Baker in memory of his parents, Harvey and Marion Baker 84.080

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