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- Exhibition History
- Bibliography
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Inscription
lower right: JMWT
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Provenance
Purchased 1843 from exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, by Edwin Bullock, Hawthorn House, Handsworth, Birmingham; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 21 and 23 May 1870, 1st day, no. 143); bought by (Thos. Agnew & Sons), London, who sold it that same day to John Fowler (later Sir John Fowler, Bt.) [1817-1898], Thornwood Lodge, Campden Hill, London; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6 May 1899, no. 79); bought by (Thos. Agnew & Sons), London, for James Ross, Montreal; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 8 July 1927, no. 28, repro.); bought by (Thos. Agnew & Sons), London, for Alvin T. Fuller, Boston [d. 1958]; The Fuller Foundation; gift 1961 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1843
- Modern Works of Art, Birmingham Society of Artists, Athenaeum, Temple Row, Birmingham, 1843, no. 54.
- 1843
- Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1843, no. 144.
- 1899
- Loan Collection of Pictures and Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1899, no. 7.
- 1899
- Twenty Masterpieces of the English School, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., 1899, no. 19.
- 1904
- Society of American Collectors Comparative Exhibition of Native and Foreign Art, American Fine Arts Society Galleries, 1904, no. 165, as Venice, the Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute.
- 1928
- Exhibition of Paintings Loaned by Governor Alvan T. Fuller, Art Club, Boston, 1928, no. 46.
- 1939
- Paintings Drawings Prints from Private Collections in New England, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1939, no. 133, pl. 65.
- 1946
- Paintings Drawings and Prints by J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, R.P. Bonington, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946, no. 17.
- 1959
- A Memorial Exhibition of the Collection of the Honorable Alvan T. Fuller, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1959, no. 33, repro.
- 1974
- Turner 1775-1851, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1974-1975, no. 533, color repro.
- 1986
- Turner, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Municipal Museum, Kyoto, 1986, no. 50, color repro.
- 1989
- Discerning Tastes: Montreal Collectors 1880-1920, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1989-1990, 156-160, no. 57.
- 1993
- The Art of Seeing: John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye, Phoenix Art Museum; Indianapolis Art Museum, 1993, fig. 22.
- 1997
- Joseph Mallord William Turner, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, 1997, no. 93, repro.
- 2002
- Loan for display with permanent collection, Cincinnati Art Museum, 2002-2003.
- 2003
- Turner: The Late Seascapes, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; Manchester Art Gallery; The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, 2003-2004, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 82, repro. (shown only in Manchester and Glasgow).
- 2008
- Venice: From Canaletto and Turner to Monet, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, 2008-2009, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
- 2010
- La Serenissima : Eighteenth-Ventury Venetian Art from North American Collections, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2010-2011, no. 50, repro.
Bibliography
- 1843
- Athenaeum 816 (17 June 1843): 570.
- 1843
- Spectator, 16, no. 776, 13 May 1843: 451.
- 1843
- The Times (London), 9 May 1843.
- 1930
- Finberg, Alexander Joseph. In Venice with Turner. London, 1930: 148.
- 1962
- Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 142, color repro.
- 1963
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 322, repro.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 133
- 1966
- Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:374, color repro.
- 1968
- Cooke, Hereward Lester. Painting Lessons from the Great Masters. London, 1968: 232, details and color repro. opp.
- 1968
- European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 120, repro.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 356, repro.
- 1975
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 601, color repro.
- 1980
- Collected Correspondence of J.M.W. Turner. Edited by John Gage. Oxford, 1980: no. 261.
- 1984
- Butlin, Martin and Evelyn Joll. The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1977 (2d rev. ed., 1984): 1:no. 403; 2:color pl. 409.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 413, no. 586, color repro.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 406, repro.
- 1992
- Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 283-285, repro. 285.
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