Gouache, graphite and watercolour on paper
Watercolours Including Midland Subjects
Watercolours Including Midland Subjects
Midlands 1794-1802
Midlands 1794-1802
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>
A Transparency A MossCovered Cottage and Shed with a Man Smoking and a Lantern
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
actions: postures and motions
adults
agriculture, gardening & fishing
architecture
clothing and personal items
cottage
heating and lighting
lantern
leisure and pastimes
man
objects
people
pipe
pool
recreational activities
residential
smoking
standing
sunshine
water: inland
weather
wheelbarrow
<p>This drawing, together with 'Moonlight Through Trees' (also displayed on this wall), has the additional interest of being a 'transparency'. Such pictures, for which there developed a vogue during the mid-1790s, were intended to offer two effects; one when seen ordinarily and a second, more dramatic, when a light source is placed behind the sheet. The latter method of viewing usually invests the image with the romantic glow of moonlight and/or firelight. The adjacent photograph shows the drawing as it appears when lit from behind.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique gouache graphite watercolour
28 October 2023 – 10 March 2024
2024-03-10
28 October 2023 – 10 March 2024
2024-03-10
2023-10-28
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich, Germany)
2023-10-28
Turner at Lenbachhaus Munich
Loan-out
A Transparency: A Moss-Covered Cottage and Shed, with a Man Smoking and a Lantern
support: 331 × 235 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
<p>This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a>, together with 'Moonlight Through  Trees' (also displayed on this wall), has the  additional interest of being a 'transparency'.  Such pictures, for which there developed a vogue  during the mid-1790s, were intended to offer two  effects; one when seen ordinarily and a second,  more dramatic, when a light source is placed  behind the sheet. The latter method of viewing  usually invests the image with the romantic glow  of moonlight and/or firelight. The adjacent  <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> shows the drawing as it appears when  lit from behind.</p>
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2012-12-05T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults agriculture, gardening & fishing architecture clothing and personal items cottage heating and lighting lantern leisure and pastimes man objects people pipe pool recreational activities residential smoking standing sunshine water: inland weather wheelbarrow
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