Calm, plate 44 from Liber Studiorum
Joseph Mallord William Turner · published April 23, 1812 · Etching and engraving in brown on ivory laid paper
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Calm, plate 44 from Liber Studiorum is a public-domain illustration by Joseph Mallord William Turner, dated published April 23, 1812. Etching and engraving in brown on ivory laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Calm, plate 44 from Liber Studiorum” (published April 23, 1812) 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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