Watercolor, graphite and scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 x 15 1/2 inches (27.9 x 39.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1618
Gallery Label:
Turner’s subject is the great mountain of Ingleborough in the Yorkshire dales seen during a dramatic electrical storm. The stormy weather suggests a chain of associations extending back to James Thomson’s famous poem The Seasons (1726–30), a celebration of God’s creation that blended allegorical content with naturalistic description and treated storms as expressions of the hand of God acting in nature. Turner’s turbulent landscape demands to be taken as high art, a profound exploration of the natural world that at the same time raises the deeper questions of human existence. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)