Dido Building Carthage by J.M.W. Turner
Dido Building Carthage canvas print displayed on a wall
Detail of Dido Building Carthage by J.M.W. Turner showing the brushwork and surface texture of the painting

J.M.W. Turner

Dido Building Carthage

US$ 690.00

A rising city glows on either side of a harbour while the sun climbs directly out of the water at the centre, drowning the architecture in gold. Turner regarded this as his masterpiece and left it to the National Gallery on condition it hang beside a Claude Lorrain, so that posterity could judge the comparison. He also asked, in an earlier will, to be buried wrapped in it.

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J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) began as a topographical watercolourist and ended painting canvases so dissolved into light and weather that his contemporaries accused him of leaving them unfinished. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from the age of fifteen and travelled constantly through Britain and Europe. He left his enormous studio holdings to the British nation.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 54 × 36 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery

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