Mussooree and the Dhoon from Landour
Joseph Mallord William Turner · c. 1835 · Watercolor and gouache, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, edge mounted on cream wove card
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Mussooree and the Dhoon from Landour is a public-domain drawing by Joseph Mallord William Turner, dated c. 1835. Watercolor and gouache, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, edge mounted on cream wove card. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Mussooree and the Dhoon from Landour” (c. 1835) treats light as the subject. In Turner’s later pictures, ships, storms, and sunrises dissolve, and he showed those canvases as finished works.
About the artist
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) was an English landscape painter. His late pictures dissolve ships, storms, and sunrises into light, and he exhibited them as finished works, not sketches.
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