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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Dazio Grande, 1843

Description

Maker

  • Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, English

Title

Dazio Grande

Year

1843

Medium

Watercolor applied with a brush, and graphite

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • watercolor,
  • pen and ink

Dimensions

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

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

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

Object Number

84.080

Projects & Publications

Publications

Get There First, Decide Promptly

The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art

Made in the UK

Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection

Bulletin of Rhode Island School of Design, Museum Notes

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Made in the UK

September 23, 2011 - January 8, 2012

Rapid Gestures

December 18, 2009 - June 6, 2010

Luminous Landscapes

May 27 - August 14, 2005

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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