J.M.W. Turner: Romance & Reality (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-03-29 - 2025-07-27)Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Portland Art Museum, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
Publications:
Eric M. Lee, Translations : Turner and printmaking, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, p. 37, no. 142, NJ18 .T85 L44 1993 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, British watercolors : drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries from the Yale Center for British Art, , Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1985, no. 44, pl. 44, ND1928 W533 1985 (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, J. M. W. Turner : his art and life, , Rizzoli, New York, 1979, pp.444-445, NJ18 T85 W577 1979 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, pp. 170, 445, no. 1215, pl. 185, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Book illustration was another prolific strand of Turner’s practice. During the 1830s, he was especially active creating illustrations for the works of a number of celebrated authors, including Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron. This view of the Mediterranean island of Rhodes was commissioned to illustrate a popular edition of Byron’s Life and Works (1832–34). It typifies the small-scale images the artist produced to meet the needs of this market. As with his earlier Vesuvius, Turner had never visited the scene, instead relying on a sketch by another artist. In spite of this, his powerful imaginative and technical abilities endowed this work with a vividness of coloring and strength of form that are difficult to reconcile with its derivative nature. Gallery label for J. M. W. Turner: Romance and Reality (Yale Center for British Art, March - 29, 2025 - July 27, 2025)