Description
Bands of storm and rain move across a broad, low landscape in Turner’s Solway Moss. Travelers and animals occupy the lower ground, with the sky giving their passage a much larger atmospheric setting. The Metropolitan Museum identifies cattle being driven across an estuary at low tide, making the small moving forms part of a practical journey through exposed terrain.
Published on January 1, 1816, the print combines etching and mezzotint. J. M. W. Turner designed and etched it, with Thomas Goff Lupton credited as engraver; this is the fifth of five states. The work joins the artist’s outlined composition with developed tonal passages, giving the landscape a fully worked graphic presence. Its appeal lies in the way a particular place can become a composed image while retaining the sense of terrain extending beyond the picture’s boundary.
Read our guide to giclée prints or browse the J. M. W. Turner collection.
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