J. M. W. Turner · 1835
Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight
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The port of Newcastle under a full moon — keelmen unload coal from their flat-bottomed boats to tall ships by the glare of blazing torches, the moonlight flooding a silvery river between dark hulls and rigging. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Up to 21.5 × 16 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
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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 Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight
The 1835 seascape is set at the port of Newcastle in the North East of England, where keelmen unloaded coal brought down the Tyne in flat-bottomed boats onto the ships that carried it onward. It was commissioned by the Manchester textile manufacturer Henry McConnell as a companion to Turner's Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, and was shown at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1835. 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..."
All J. M. W. Turner prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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