Ships in a Breeze

Engraver
nationality
English
birth-death
1773-1857
nationality
British
birth-death
1775-1851
Creation date
Collection
Prints
Materials
mezzotint over etching
Dimensions
8 x 11 1/4 in (plate) 11 9/16 x 16 3/4 in (sheet)
Currently On View
Location
The J.M.W. Turner Suite
Credit line
Bequest of Kurt F. Pantzer
Accession number
80.716.2
Provenance
R.A. Yerburgh collection, 1945.; Arthur Mitchell, Cheltenham.; Kurt Pantzer, Indianapolis.
Gallery Label

Turner's second "Marine" subject in the Liber was interpreted from a painting, Ships Bearing up for Anchorage, that was purchased from him by the Earl of Egremont in 1802.

To suit the needs of the mezzotint, Turner recomposed the scene, bringing the ships much closer to the foreground and dramatizing the play of light on the clouds and seas.

"How many, we may ask, of painters of to-day but would have rested here satisfied, and painted none but sea-pieces for the rest of their lives?"
-W.G. Rawlinson, 1878
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