Ville de Thun
Joseph Mallord William Turner and Thomas Hodgetts · published 1816 · etching and mezzotint
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About this picture
Ville de Thun is a public-domain illustration by Joseph Mallord William Turner and Thomas Hodgetts, dated published 1816. Etching and mezzotint. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Ville de Thun” (published 1816) 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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