Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-crome-126" aria-label="More by John Crome" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">John Crome</a>
Slate Quarries
Purchased 1878
adults
architecture
cloud
figure
industrial
landscape
mountain
people
places
quarry
UK countries and regions
Wales
weather
<p>This picture may show a scene in the Lake District or somewhere in Wales, but such identification is perhaps beside the point. More important is the sense of awe and mystery it conjures up. It gains much of its effect from its obscurity – one of the elements of the Sublime.</p><p>The ambiguity of subject and loose handling was advanced for the time, when high finish and greater topographical clarity were more usual. It was too advanced even for Turner. He is said to have owned a freely painted work by Crome – perhaps this picture – but little appreciated it.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
24 June 2002 – 21 May 2007
2007-05-21
24 June 2002 – 1 July 2003
2003-07-01
2002-06-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-06-24
Turner: Sublime Landscape
Collection based display
15 June 2005 – 4 September 2005
2005-09-04
15 June 2005 – 4 September 2005
2005-09-04
2005-06-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-06-15
A Picture of Britain
Exhibition
30 July 2010 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
30 July 2010 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
2010-07-30
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-07-30
Romantics
Collection based display
23 April 2021 – 5 September 2021
2021-09-05
23 April 2021 – 5 September 2021
2021-09-05
2021-04-23
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery (Norwich, UK)
http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk
2021-04-23
A Passion for Landscape: Rediscovering John Crome
Loan-out
Slate Quarries
support: 1238 × 1587 mm
frame: 1542 × 1889 × 153 mm
Purchased 1878
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<span class="text0">This picture may show a scene in the Lake District or      somewhere in Wales, but such identification is perhaps beside the point. </span><span class="text21">More important is the sense of awe </span><span class="text0">
and mystery it conjures up. It gains much  </span><span class="text21">of its effect from its obscurity – one </span><span class="text0">
of the elements of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sublime" title="Glossary definition for 'Sublime'"><span>Sublime</span></a>. </span>
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<span class="text18">The ambiguity of subject and loose handling was      advanced for the time, </span><span class="text0">
</span><span class="text20">when high finish and greater </span><span class="text22">topographical</span><span class="text20"> </span><span class="text18">clarity were more usual. It was      too advanced even for Turner. He is said  to have owned a freely painted      work  by Crome – perhaps this picture – but </span><span class="text19">
little appreciated it.</span><span class="text0">  </span>
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