J. M. W. Turner · 1811
Saltash with the Water Ferry
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A misty morning at Saltash on the River Tamar — the ferry landing crowded with people, horses and boats before a dark timbered inn, red-sailed craft at the left and the town climbing the hill behind. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Up to 16.1 × 12 in · landscape
Size
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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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The story of Saltash with the Water Ferry
The 1811 painting shows the town of Saltash on the River Tamar, across from the port of Plymouth; the ferry that ran between the two is shown, together with an inn and several smaller craft. A redcoat sentry is a reminder of the ongoing Napoleonic Wars. Turner painted it after an 1811 visit to the West Country and showed it in his own gallery in London rather than at the Royal Academy. It entered the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1889 with the Marquand Collection.
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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