The Straw Yard, plate 7 from Liber Studiorum
Joseph Mallord William Turner · Published February 20, 1808 · Etching and engraving in brown on ivory paper
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The Straw Yard, plate 7 from Liber Studiorum is a public-domain illustration by Joseph Mallord William Turner, dated Published February 20, 1808. Etching and engraving in brown on ivory paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Straw Yard, plate 7 from Liber Studiorum” (Published February 20, 1808) 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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