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J. M. W. Turner - paintings 1830-1839

In addition to narrating tales from the distant past, Turner also found subjects in the world around him. Interested in expressing grand emotions, he was particularly attracted to sublime or awesome aspects of contemporary life. When, on October 16, 1834, the Houses of Parliament were ravaged by fire, he observed the conflagration from a boat in the Thames and recorded the scene in watercolors and oil paintings. He memorialized yet a greater tragedy in Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying: Typhoon Coming On, indicting the slave trade's calculated horrors with agitated brushstrokes congealing into violent waves beneath a blood-red sky. The nearly abstract Rain, Steam, and Speed: The Great Western Railway evokes the Industrial Revolution's rapid transformations through strong diagonals, bold contrasts of light and dark, and tumultuous handling.
From The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Interior of a Great House 1830	Jessica 1830	Kenilworth Castle 1830	Mont Blanc from Fort Roch, Val D'Aosta 1830	Scene on the Loire 1830
The Evening Star 1830	View of Saint Germain en Laye and its Chateau 1830	Sunset 1830-1835	The Thames above Waterloo Bridge 1830-1835	The Scarlet Sunset 1830-1840
Caligula’s Palace and Bridge 1831	Fort Vimieux 1831	Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Italy 1832	Helvoetsluys, the City of Utrecht, 64, Going to Sea 1832	Kidwelly Castle, South Wales 1832
Rouen Cathedral 1832	Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Burning Fiery Furnace 1832	Staffa, Fingal's Cave 1832	The Prince of Orange 1832	View over Town at Sunset, a Cemetery in the Foreground 1832

Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House 1833	Quillebeuf, at the Mouth of Seine 1833	Rotterdam Ferry-Boat 1833	The Valley of the Brook at Kidron, Jerusalem,Absalom's Tomb 1833	The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834
The Burning of the Houses of Parliament 1834	The Golden Bough 1834	The Temple of Poseidon at Sunium, Cape Colonna 1834	Venice, The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore 1834	Wreckers Coast of Northumberland 1834
The Burning of the Houses of Parliament 1834-1835	A Disaster at Sea 1835	Dinner in a Great Room with Figures in Costume 1835	Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight 1835	Landscape with a River and a Bay in the Background 1835
Longship Lighthouse, Lands End 1835	Music Party, East Cowes Castle 1835	Riders on a Beach 1835	Shore Scene with Waves and Breakwater 1835	The Bright Stone of Honour, Ehrenbreitstein and the Tomb of Marceau, from Byron's 'Childe Harold' 1835

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834 1835	The High Street, Oxford 1835	The Rainbow 1835	Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute 1835	Two women and a letter 1835
Waves Breaking on a Shore 1835	Wolf's Hope, Eyemouth 1835	Yacht Approaching the Coast 1835	Breakers on a Flat Beach 1835-1840	Grey Clouds over the Sea 1835-1840
Margate, from the Sea 1835-1840	Stormy Sea with Blazing Wreck 1835-1840	Stormy Sea with Dolphins 1835-1840	A Packet Boat off Dover 1836	Rome from Mount Aventine 1836
Ivrea 1836-1845	Hero and Leander's farewell 1837	Interior of Petworth House 1837	Regulus 1837	The Grand Canal Scene, A Street In Venice 1837

Ancient Italy. Ovid Banished from Rome 1838	Flint Castle 1838	Phryne Going to the Public Baths as Venus, Demosthenes Taunted by Aeschines 1838	Steamer and Lightship; a study for ‘The Fighting Temeraire’ 1838-1839	Ancient Rome Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus 1839
Modern Rome, Campo Vaccino 1839	The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up 1839	The Rape of Proserpine 1839	Juliet And Her Nurse 1836	The Arch of Constantine, Rome 1835