Scenes on the Kibble near Little Milton Hall, Lancashire
Joseph Mallord William Turner · n.d. · Pen and brown ink, over touches of graphite, on cream wove paper
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About this picture
Scenes on the Kibble near Little Milton Hall, Lancashire is a public-domain drawing by Joseph Mallord William Turner, dated n.d.. Pen and brown ink, over touches of graphite, on cream wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Scenes on the Kibble near Little Milton Hall, Lancashire” (n.d.) 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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