The 'Sun of Venice' going to Sea

after Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851). Oil painting on panel, The 'Sun of Venice' going to Sea after Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA, (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851). It shows a hazy harbour scene, the lagoon of Venice, with a boat in full sail, a ‘bragozzo’, a Venetian fishing boat. The name emblazoned on the sail is the ‘Sol di Venezia’ in the centre. It is a sketch after the original painting now in Tate Britain which Turner exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1843 with an accompanying poem, 'The Fallacies of Hope' in which is an unexpected premonition of doom suggesting that anyone who ventures out to sea faces dangers, a ‘demon in grim repose’. One of the last Sir John's 'Old Masters' collection. Knightshayes Court, Devon (Accredited Museum)