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From Spenser's Fairy Queen, Joseph Mallord William Turner and Thomas Hodgetts, Public domain

From Spenser's Fairy Queen

Joseph Mallord William Turner and Thomas Hodgetts · published 1811 · etching and mezzotint

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About this picture

From Spenser's Fairy Queen is a public-domain illustration by Joseph Mallord William Turner and Thomas Hodgetts, dated published 1811. Etching and mezzotint. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.

“From Spenser's Fairy Queen” (published 1811) 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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