Watercolour and gouache on paper
England and Wales c.1826-38
England and Wales c.1826-38
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Burning Houses Parliament
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
architecture
crowd
destruction
disaster: Houses of Parliament, fire, 16 Oct 1834
emotions, concepts and ideas
England
figure
fire
fireman
groups
history
natural phenomena
night
parliament
people
places
politics and society
public and municipal
public service
smoke
times of the day
UK countries and regions
UK London
universal concepts
water
Westminster, Houses of Parliament
work and occupations
<p>Turner was an eyewitness of the fire which destroyed the Houses of Commons and Lords on 16–17 October 1834. A large crowd, held back by soldiers, watches firemen fighting the blaze. Turner exhibited two oil paintings of the fire in 1835, but seen from the other side of the Thames. A watercolour vignette was engraved for the <span>Keepsake</span> annual journal in 1836. Turner made these records in the wake of the 1832 Reform Act of Parliament. They perhaps underlined the sweeping away of the old order.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2022</em></p>
paper unique watercolour gouache
1 October 2007 – 21 September 2008
2008-09-21
1 October 2007 – 6 January 2008
2008-01-06
2007-10-01
National Gallery of Art (Washington DC, USA)
10 February 2008 – 18 May 2008
2008-05-18
2008-02-10
Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, USA)
http://www.DallasMuseumofArt.org
23 June 2008 – 21 September 2008
2008-09-21
2008-06-23
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
2007-10-01
JMW Turner
Tate partnerships & programmes
5 April 2013 – 5 January 2015
2015-01-05
5 April 2013 – 5 January 2015
2015-01-05
2013-04-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-04-05
Turner: Works on Paper
Collection based display
5 September 2015 – 3 January 2016
2016-01-03
5 September 2015 – 3 January 2016
2016-01-03
2015-09-05
Museum de Fundatie (Zwolle, Netherlands)
5 September 2015 – 3 January 2016
2016-01-03
2015-09-05
Rijksmuseum Twenthe (Enschede, Netherlands)
2015-09-05
Danger and Beauty - William Turner and the Tradition of the Sublime
Loan-out
10 June 2021 – 17 October 2021
2021-10-17
10 June 2021 – 17 October 2021
2021-10-17
2021-06-10
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Bordeaux, France)
2021-06-10
Absolutely Bizarre!
Loan-out
The Burning of the Houses of Parliament
support: 302 × 444 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<div class="text">
<p>Turner was an eyewitness of the fire which destroyed the Houses of Commons and Lords on 16–17 October 1834. A large crowd, held back by soldiers, watches firemen fighting the blaze. Turner exhibited two oil paintings of the fire in 1835, but seen from the other side of the Thames. A watercolour vignette was engraved for the <i>Keepsake</i> annual journal in 1836. Turner made these records in the wake of the 1832 Reform Act of Parliament. They perhaps underlined the sweeping away of the old order.</p>
</div>

Display caption
2022-11-03T00:00:00
display-caption
DISPLAY_CAPTION
/art/ajax/research-text/art/artworks/turner-the-burning-of-the-houses-of-parliament-d36235/TURNER_CATALOGUE_TEXT_WORK
Catalogue entry
2017-02-26T00:00:00
catalogue-entry-xml
TURNER_CATALOGUE_TEXT_WORK
adults architecture crowd destruction disaster: Houses of Parliament, fire, 16 Oct 1834 emotions, concepts and ideas England figure fire fireman groups history natural phenomena night parliament people places politics and society public and municipal public service smoke times of the day UK countries and regions UK London universal concepts water Westminster, Houses of Parliament work and occupations
CCCLXIV 373