By Kind Permission of a Private Collection
By Kind Permission of a Private Collection
Turner 's Snow storm - steam boat off a harbour's mouth making signals in shallow water, and going by the lead, oil on canvas, exhibited Royal Academy 1842, Turner Bequest, Tate Britain ( Wilton P398).
The hostile journalistic criticism of this picture - 'of most unintelligible character' ( Literary Gazette, quoted in Works, 3.xxiv) - and others at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1842 fuelled Ruskin 's determination to begin Modern Painters, as a defence of Turner. (See also critical attack on Turner.)
J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851
Snow-storm - Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead 1842
Oil on canvas, 91.5x122cm
Exhibitions: RA 1842 (182); RA 1974-5 (504)
Engraving:
Engraved by R. Brandard, 1859
Steel engraving, 19.1x25.7cm
Engraved for the Turner Gallery, 1859-1875
Provenance: Turner Bequest 1856; transferred to the Tate Gallery in 1910; returned to the National Gallery, 1952; re-transferred to the Tate Gallery, 1968
Further Comments: It is unclear if the painting shows the same scane as the engraving, however, they go by the same name (although the title of the engraving is shortened).
Collection: Tate Gallery, London