Description
A large dark sail anchors the center of Turner’s calm harbor scene, with smaller vessels sharing the broad, flat water. People occupy a foreground boat at the right, and reflections connect the vessels with the surface beneath them. The quiet setting gives different scales of maritime activity a shared space without the turbulence of a storm.
Published on April 23, 1812, the work combines etching, aquatint and mezzotint, with Turner responsible for the image and its publication. This impression is the third of seven states. The several techniques allow linear structure and broader tones to belong to one graphic field. The print makes stillness a substantial pictorial subject, suggesting that a marine landscape can reward sustained looking through restraint as readily as through the visible energy of a storm.
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