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Joseph Mallord William Turner British
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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, devoted to the nation's capital city. The intent was to reproduce the series as prints but the project was never realized.
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Title: View of London from Greenwich
Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London)
Date: 1825
Medium: Watercolor and ink and traces of graphite
Dimensions: sheet: 8 3/8 x 11 in. (21.3 x 28 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958
Accession Number: 59.23.23
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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)
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Great Britain and Ireland, 1800-1900 A.D.
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