We look across churning waves at four sailing ships and a wooden rowboat with four men aboard in this horizontal painting. Dark, iron-gray and tawny-brown clouds approaching from the right fill the top two-thirds of the composition. The water closest to us roils with steel gray and tan, which deepens to charcoal gray as it recedes toward low hills in the distant background. In the lower left corner of the painting, a wooden container bobs in the waves, and a white bird flies low over the water nearby. Two ships to the left of center head directly toward us, leaning steeply to our left with…
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The Junction of the Thames and the Medway

Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775 - 1851)

1807

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 108.8 x 143.7 cm (42 13/16 x 56 9/16 in.) ; framed: 148 x 180.3 cm (58 1/4 x 71 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Widener Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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