Gouache, graphite and watercolour on paper
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Bedlam Furnace Coalbrookdale
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
boat, sailing
Coalbrookdale, Bedlam Furnace
England
England, Midlands
foundry
hill
industrial
landscape
natural phenomena
places
river
Shropshire
smoke
society
transport: water
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
water: inland
<p>Bedlam Furnace was perhaps named after the noise and smoke it pumped out, or the ‘hell-fire’ sermons of a local Methodist preacher. The word ‘Bedlam’ had come to mean uproar and confusion, after the Bethlem psychiatric hospital in London. Turner bought this watercolour in 1833. It had been owned by Dr Thomas Monro, a physician known to Turner’s family. Turner had studied and copied drawings from Monro’s extensive art collection at his informal evening ‘academy’ for young artists in 1793–4.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2022</em></p>
paper unique gouache graphite watercolour
1 July 2002 – 20 March 2005
2005-03-20
1 July 2002 – 20 March 2005
2005-03-20
2002-07-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-07-01
Turner and the Modern World
Collection based display
28 October 2020 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
28 October 2020 – 12 September 2021
2021-09-12
2020-10-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2020-10-28
Turner's Modern World
Exhibition
Bedlam Furnace, Coalbrookdale
support: 316 × 440 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
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<p>Bedlam Furnace was perhaps named after the noise and smoke it pumped out, or the ‘hell-fire’ sermons of a local Methodist preacher. The word ‘Bedlam’ had come to mean uproar and confusion, after the Bethlem psychiatric hospital in London. Turner bought this watercolour in 1833. It had been owned by Dr Thomas Monro, a physician known to Turner’s family. Turner had studied and copied drawings from Monro’s extensive art collection at his informal evening ‘academy’ for young artists in 1793–4.</p>
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