Painting by J. M. W. Turner
The Departure of the Fleet history painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner . Inspired by Classical writings, it depicts the fleet of the Trojan Aeneas departing from Carthage The Carthaginian Queen Dido and her attendants are on the left, watching the departure of the ships.
It was one of four paintings that Turner exhibited at Royal Academy 's Summer Exhibition of 1850. Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain , having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856.
See also
References
Bibliography
Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun . Tate Enterprises Ltd, 2013.
Beckett, R.B. John Constable and the Fishers: The Record of a Friendship . Taylor & Francis, 2023.
Costello, Leo. J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History . Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Finley, Gerald. Angel in the Sun; Turner's Vision of History . McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.
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Vance, Norman. The Victorians and Ancient Rome . John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
Paintings
Interior of a Romanesque Church c. 1795 –1800)Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow c. 1795 –1800)Diana and Callisto c. 1796 )Fishermen at Sea Interior of a Gothic Church c. 1797 )Limekiln at Coalbrookdale c. 1797 )Moonlight, a Study at Millbank Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus c. 1798 )Buttermere Lake Caernarvon Castle c. 1798 )Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland Shipping by a Breakwater Tivoli and the Roman Campagna c. 1798 )View of a Town c. 1798 )Dolbadarn Castle Self-Portrait c. 1799 )View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle – Evening c. 1799 –1800)Welsh Mountain Landscape c. 1799 –1800)A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire c. 1800 )A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance c. 1800 )Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree c. 1800 )Dutch Boats in a Gale Calais Pier View on Clapham Common c. 1800 –1805)The Shipwreck Walton Bridges Sun Rising through Vapour Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour View of Richmond Hill and Bridge The Garreteer's Petition London from Greenwich Park Ploughing Up Turnips The Fifth Plague of Egypt High Street, Oxford Saltash with the Water Ferry Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Frosty Morning Dido building Carthage, or, Crossing the Brook The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire Dort or Dordrecht: The Field of Waterloo England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday Rome, from the Vatican The Battle of Trafalgar The Bay of Baiae Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening Forum Romanum Mortlake Terrace Port Ruysdael Chichester Canal East Cowes Castle Regulus Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay The Fountain of Indolence The Golden Bough Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons Rome, From Mount Aventine Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c. 1835 )Juliet and her Nurse The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino Slave Ship Venice, the Bridge of Sighs Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth The Blue Rigi The Red Rigi Peace – Burial at Sea War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway Sunrise with Sea Monsters Norham Castle, Sunrise c. 1845 )Seascape: Folkestone c. 1845 )Whalers c. 1845 )The Departure of the Fleet The Beacon Light Prints Museums Related
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