| 1 |
Johannisberg |
1817 |
21 x 33 cm |
British Museum |
watercolour |
From the Rhine visit |
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| 2 |
Buttermere
Lake, with part of Cromack Water, Cumberland: a Shower |
1798 |
91 x 122 cm |
Tate Gallery |
oil on canvas |
From the Lake District trip of
1797, Exhibited RA 1798 along with Coniston Fells |
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| 3 |
Castle
of Chillon |
1809 |
28 x 39.5 cm |
British Museum |
watercolour |
The castle is at the mouth of the River
Rhone |
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| 4 |
Light
and Colour (Goethe's Theory)-The Mourning after the Deluge-Moses
Writing the Book of Genesis |
1843 |
78 x 78 cm |
Tate
Gallery |
oil on canvas |
One of a pair exhibited RA
1843, The other being 'The Evening of the Deluge'. |
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| 5 |
Shades
and Darkness: The Evening of the Deluge |
1843 |
78 x 78 cm |
Tate Gallery |
oil on canvas |
Exhibited with above |
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| 6 |
Hastings
from the Sea |
1818 |
39.8 x 59 cm |
British Museum |
watercolour |
A lovely fishing town in
Sussex. As a seaside I've been going there for years. |
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| 7 |
Biebrich
Palace on the Rhine |
1820 |
29 x 45 cm |
British Museum |
watercolour |
This painting brought by
Walter Fawkes, envied by other, instigated the printed series on the Rhine. |
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| 8 |
Oberlahnstein |
1817 |
19.8 x 31.6 cm |
British Museum |
watercolour |
On the opposite bank of the
river Lahn is Schloss Stolzenfels, bismantled by the French in 1689 |
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| 9 |
Venice |
1819 |
34.4 x 47.7 cm |
? |
oil on canvas |
Turner first views of Venice
are much more detailed than later freely painted views. |
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| 10 |
Zurich |
1842 |
30 x 45.6 cm |
British Museum |
watercolour |
Turner and Monro tour the Val
d'Aosta in 1836 and are inspired by Switzerland |
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| 11 |
Kenilworth
Castle |
1830 |
29 x 45 cm |
Fine arts Museum of San Francisco |
watercolour |
more detail on link> |
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| 12 |
Venice: Ducal palace with Religious
procession |
1828 |
? cm |
Tate Gallery |
watercolour |
go for a tour of Venice link
> |
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| 13 |
Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Customs-house,
Venice |
1833 |
? cm |
Clore Gallery |
watercolour |
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| 14 |
Approach to
Venice |
1843 |
? cm |
National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C. |
watercolour |
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| 15 |
Hirzenach
below St Goar |
1817 |
21 x 32.5 cm |
British Museum |
watercolour |
Acclaimed as the prettiest
road in Europe from Cologne to Mainz |
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| 16 |
Basle |
1807 |
18.5 x 26 cm |
British Museum |
mezzotint |
from the 1st Liber Studiorum
published by Turner |
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| 17 |
Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, |
1834 |
91 X 229 cm |
Tate Gallery |
oil on canvas |
The most classical of all Italian subjects, after such artist as Claude, Poussin and Dughet |
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| 18 |
Abbey
near Coblenz |
1817 |
19.5 x 31.3 cm |
British Museum |
watercolour |
View across the Rhine. |
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| 19 |
Saltash,
Cornwall |
1825 |
27 x 41.8 cm |
British Museum |
watercolour |
watercolour for 'Picturesque
Views of England and Wales', the engraver Charles Heath was offered 50 guineas
for each watercolour |
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| 20 |
Colosseum,
Rome |
1820 |
27.7 x 29 cm |
British Museum |
watercolour |
This painting was to be
engraved for 'Picturesque Views in Italy' series |
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