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J. M. W. Turner · 1834

Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore

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A bright Venetian morning — gondolas and laden boats crowd the water before the customs house of the Dogana, with the white church and red campanile of San Giorgio Maggiore across the basin under a blue sky. National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Up to 16.2 × 12 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

16.2″12″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore

The 1834 painting depicts the Punta della Dogana, Venice's customs house, and the church of San Giorgio Maggiore. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in 1834. It was produced for the textile manufacturer Henry McConnell, who commissioned a contrasting companion piece, Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, from Turner the following year. It is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. His artistic style developed over his lifetime, moving away from Romanticism—bypassing the following rising style of Realism—and, instead, with his later works being a significant precursor of and presaging the later Impressionist and Abstract Art movements that arose in the decades after his death. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. In 1969 art historian Kenneth Clark wrote of Turner: "He was a genius of the first order—far the greatest painter that England has ever produced..."

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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