Oberwesel
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1840 · watercolor and gouache over graphite with scratching-out
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About this picture
Oberwesel is a public-domain drawing by Joseph Mallord William Turner, dated 1840. Watercolor and gouache over graphite with scratching-out. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Oberwesel” (1840) 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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