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Mer de Glace, Chamonix, with Blair's Hut, 1806 (pencil, watercolour, scraping on wove paper)

Mer de Glace, Chamonix, with Blair's Hut, 1806 (pencil, watercolour, scraping on wove paper)
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Image title
Mer de Glace, Chamonix, with Blair's Hut, 1806 (pencil, watercolour, scraping on wove paper)
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Artist
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) / English
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Location
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Medium
pencil, watercolour, scraping on wove paper
Date
1806 AD (C19th AD)
Dimensions
27.6x39.2 cms
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The Mer de Glace, the second largest glacier in the Alps, is named for its resemblance to a frozen sea. Standing on the ice, Turner was clearly awed by the scale of the jagged peaks and the wild untamed scenery. Abandoning any framing device in this composition, he allows the terrain to disappear off the edges of the sheet. Bands of cool and warm colour give a feeling of recession, while a tiny eagle soaring over the valley below emphasises the vastness of the landscape. The work was commissioned by Walter Fawkes, who owned five watercolours of the Mer de Glace region inspired by Turner’s 1802 tour.

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Photo © The Courtauld / Bridgeman Images
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19th century / art / France / Europe / landscape / Turner Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) / England / United Kingdom / Royal Academician / painting / landscape / ice / icy / winter / wintry / mountain / mountainous / snow / snowy / Chamonix / French / mountains / landscapes / 19th century / C19 / Nineteenth Century / peaks / cold / glacier / glacial

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