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View of London from Greenwich

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Date

1825

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/356768

Description

Turner here offers a panorama of greater London as seen from Greenwich Park, looking down towards the Naval Hospital designed by Sir Christopher Wren, the river Thames, and the distant city. The foreground is littered with maps and globes, with a woman holding up two plans for a naval pensioner with spectacles and crutches to inspect–a reference to England's past. Slightly behind, a man dressed in a fashionably tall top hat and yellow gloves raises his hands to celebrate the burgeoning present. Finally, a third figure further down the hill peers through a telescope at steam boats racing past sailing ships on the river–a hint at the future. The watercolor belongs to a group that the artist made around 1825 as he planned a series of prints that never was published. Medium: watercolor and ink and traces of graphite.

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CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Greenwich, London, England

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Travel & Transport

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