Artist Turner, Joseph Mallord William
     nationality British
     birth-death April 23, 1775-December 19, 1851
Creation date about 1792
Materials watercolor strengthened with pen and ink on white paper
Dimensions 8 3/8 x 10 5/8 in (sheet)
Credit line Gift in Memory of Dr. and Mrs. Hugo O. Pantzer by their Children
Accession number 72.176

Gallery Label

Turner's lifelong fascination with the potent forces of nature first manifested itself in this rain-swept panorama of Llanthony Abbey in the stormy Black Mountains of South Wales.

Atmospheric conditions were not suggested in the precise pencil sketch that Turner made on site, but were rather conjured from memory when he fashioned the watercolor in his studio.

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, Abbeys, animals, apprehension, atmospheric, fantastic, figures, JMW Turner, Llanddewi Nant Hodni, mysterious, raging river, Ruins, Streams, sublime, Wales, water, watercolor, windswept, windy day, windy scene
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