A Waterfall
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1795/1796 · graphite with blue and gray wash, laid down on old album sheet
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About this picture
A Waterfall is a public-domain drawing by Joseph Mallord William Turner, dated 1795/1796. Graphite with blue and gray wash, laid down on old album sheet. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“A Waterfall” (1795/1796) 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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