J.M.W. Turner — The Sun Is God

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BEGINNINGS LIBER STUDIORUM MIDDLE YEARS LATE WORKS

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A Waterfall, 1795/1796 — graphite with blue and gray wash, laid down on old album sheet

"THE SUN
IS GOD"

J.M.W. TURNER, 1775–1851 — AN APPRECIATION IN LIGHT

EIGHTEEN WORKS FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART — 1795 TO 1844

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Boats Carrying Out Anchors to the Dutch Men of War, c. 1804 — oil on canvas

The Junction of the Thames and the Medway, 1807 — oil on canvas

The Bridge in Middle Distance, published 1808 — etching, aquatint and mezzotint

Dunstanborough Castle, published 1808 — etching, aquatint and mezzotint

Ships in a Breeze, published 1808 — etching and mezzotint

The Fifth Plague of Egypt, published 1808 — etching and mezzotint

A Yorkshire River, c. 1827 — watercolor on wove paper

Mortlake Terrace, 1827 — oil on canvas

Rotterdam Ferry-Boat, 1833 — oil on canvas

Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, 1834 — oil on canvas

Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, 1835 — oil on canvas

A Packet Boat off Dover, c. 1836 — watercolor and gouache with touches of black chalk on gray wove paper, laid down

The Rape of Proserpine, 1839 — oil on canvas

Oberwesel, 1840 — watercolor and gouache over graphite with scratching-out

The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1843 — oil on canvas

The Evening of the Deluge, c. 1843 — oil on canvas

Approach to Venice, 1844 — oil on canvas

TURNER IN THIS PERIOD

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