Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<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>
Two Compositions A Claudian Seaport and an Open Landscape
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
coast
landscape
landscape - non-specific
seascapes and coasts
painting oil paint canvas
Two Compositions: A Claudian Seaport and an Open Landscape
support: 337 × 603 mm
frame: 490 × 680 × 40 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><b>280. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-two-compositions-a-claudian-seaport-and-an-open-landscape-n05533" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05533</span></a>] <b>Two Compositions: A Claudian Seaport and an Open Landscape</b> <i>c.</i> 1825–30</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5533)</p>
<p>Canvas, 13 1/4 × 23 3/4 (33·5 × 60·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (169, one of 2 each 2'0" × 1'1"; identified 1946 by chalk number on back); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1947.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, pp. 166, 188.</p>
<p>Apparently two separate compositions on one <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a>, a Claudian port scene with architecture in <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/perspective" title="Glossary definition for 'Perspective'"><span>perspective</span></a> on the left, and an open hilly <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> occupying about a third of the canvas on the right. The dating <i>c.</i>
1825–30 is very tentative.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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coast landscape landscape - non-specific seascapes and coasts