Transept of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire by Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Sketchbook pages, c.1800s
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Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, J.M.W. Turner, ca. 1842
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A photo of the full moon rising behind the Temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounion, near Athens, Greece in early July.
"The fragmented columns of the ruined structure, dedicated to the formidable "master of the sea", glimmered amber in the amplified lunar light of the so-called "Buck Moon" – a Native American designation for a full moon that coincides with the emergence of a male deer's new antlers. The magic sparked by the quiet friction of moonlight against ancient stone ignited the imagination of British Romantic artist JMW Turner. His 1834 painting The Temple of Poseidon at Sunium (Cape Colonna), which illustrates a scene from Lord Byron's satirical epic poem Don Juan, is testimony to the timeless allure of the visionary scene."
Joseph Mallord Turner - The Temple of Poseidon at Sunium - 1834
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Donatis Komet, Oxford, 19.30 Uhr, 5. Oktober 1858 von Joseph Mallord William Turner (1859, watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on paper)
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Man of War.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner - Staffa, Fingal's Cave (1831-32)
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Trieste & Venice
Joseph Mallord William Turner Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, 1834, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
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Merton College, Oxford (detail), c.1835–38.
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Watercolour on white wove paper, 294 x 432 mm
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j. m. w. turner, sunrise with sea monsters, 1845
oil on canvas
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Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851)
?Boats at sea, c.1830–45, Tate Britain
Watercolour on paper
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Vision of Medea, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1828
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Moonlight on the Medway, 1824
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The Rainbow: Osterspai and Filsen, J.M.W. Turner, 1817
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, 1798
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Vesuvius in Eruption, 1817-20
“The shuddering black cloud, broken up by twisting, trembling dispersions of fiery air, ruptured into long streaks of flame, both similar to and greater than lightning bolts.”
— Pliny the Younger, to Tacitus
(original translation)
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