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image of Approach to Venice
Joseph Mallord William Turner (artist)
British, 1775 - 1851
Approach to Venice, 1844
oil on canvas
Overall: 62 x 94 cm (24 7/16 x 37 in.) framed: 88 x 118.4 x 12.4 cm (34 5/8 x 46 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
1937.1.110
Not on View
From the Tour: Constable and Turner — British Landscapes of the Early 1800s
Object 11 of 11

Exhibition History

1844
Royal Academy of Arts, 1844, no. 356.
1860
Modern Works of Art, Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham, 1860, no. 64.
1881
Loan Collection of Oil Paintings by British Artist Born before 1801, Art Club, Liverpool, 1881, no. 133.
1887
Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Fine Art Galleries, Manchester, 1887, no. 613.
1896
Twenty Masterpieces of the English School, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., 1896, no. 5.
1903
Works by the Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School, Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1903, no. 37.
1924
Ten Paintings from the Tennant-Glenconner Collection, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1924, no. 10.
1983
Venezia nell'Ottocento [Venice in the Romantic Era], Ala Napoleonica e Museo Correr, Venice, 1983-1984, no. 14, color repro.
1998
Fontane und die bildende Kunst, Kulturforum, Berlin; Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1998-1999, no. 28, repro. (shown only in Berlin).
2003
Turner and Venice, Tate Britain, London; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 2003-2004, no. 49, repro.

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