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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |