Graphite and watercolour on paper
The Burning of the Pantheon, Oxford Street
The Burning of the Pantheon, Oxford Street
London, Oxford and the Home Counties c.1791-3
London, Oxford and the Home Counties c.1791-3
Turner general highlights
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
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Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Pantheon Morning after Fire
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
actions: expressive
adults
architecture
child
children
destruction
emotions, concepts and ideas
England
fire engine
fireman
group
groups
man
Oxford Street, The Pantheon
people
place of entertainment
places
places of entertainment
public service
ruins
society
street
talking
theatre
townscapes / man-made features
transport: land
UK countries and regions
UK London
universal concepts
woman
work and occupations
<p>In January 1792, the 16-year-old Turner witnessed the fire which destroyed the Pantheon Opera House on London’s Oxford Street. This watercolour, exhibited at the Royal Academy that year, shows a crowd assembled outside. A fire truck is on the left, while huge icicles indicate the severe frost that morning. This is above all a street scene: the fire itself, and the efforts to extinguish it from the rear of the building, are concealed by the imposing front of the Pantheon.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2022</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
4 June 2007 – 3 February 2008
2008-02-03
4 June 2007 – 3 February 2008
2008-02-03
2007-06-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2007-06-04
From Architecture to Landscape; Early Work
Collection based display
8 February 2013 – 13 April 2014
2014-04-13
8 February 2013 – 19 May 2013
2013-05-19
2013-02-08
Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia)
http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au
4 June 2013 – 8 September 2013
2013-09-08
2013-06-04
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia)
8 October 2013 – 18 December 2013
2013-12-18
2013-10-08
Toyko Metropolitan Art Museum (Toyko, Japan)
1 January 2014 – 13 April 2014
2014-04-13
2014-01-01
Kobe City Museum (Kobe, Japan)
2013-02-08
J.M.W. Turner: Makings of a Master
Loan-out
21 March 2018 – 10 January 2021
2021-01-10
21 March 2018 – 26 August 2018
2018-08-26
2018-03-21
Chiostro del Bramante (Rome, Italy)
http://www.chiostrodelbramante.it/
24 September 2018 – 17 February 2019
2019-02-17
2018-09-24
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
26 March 2019 – 28 July 2019
2019-07-28
2019-03-26
Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda (Santiago, Chile)
2018-03-21
Turner Watercolours
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28 October 2020 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
28 October 2020 – 12 September 2021
2021-09-12
2020-10-28
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17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
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27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
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2020-10-28
Turner's Modern World
Exhibition
17 October 2021 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2021-10-17
Turner's Modern World
Loan-out
The Pantheon, the Morning after the Fire
support: 395 × 515 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>In January 1792, the 16-year-old Turner witnessed the fire which destroyed the Pantheon Opera House on London’s Oxford Street. This watercolour, exhibited at the Royal Academy that year, shows a crowd assembled outside. A fire truck is on the left, while huge icicles indicate the severe frost that morning. This is above all a street scene: the fire itself, and the efforts to extinguish it from the rear of the building, are concealed by the imposing front of the Pantheon.</p>
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