Rotterdam Ferry-Boat
1833 · Oil on canvas · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851)
- Year
- 1833
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 92.3 × 122.5 cm
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- Movement
- Romanticism
A crowded ferry heels in a stiff breeze off Rotterdam, with a Dutch warship riding in the background. Turner painted it in 1833, one of a group of seascapes with Dutch subjects he produced in the early 1830s in open homage to the seventeenth-century marine painters he had studied since youth. It was shown at the Royal Academy in 1833 and bought at the exhibition by Hugh Munro of Novar, the Scottish collector who became one of Turner's most devoted patrons. The picture stayed in British hands for well over a century, passing through Agnew's and the collection of Sir Charles Tennant, before it came to the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1970. It is a reminder that alongside the visionary late Venetian canvases Turner remained a painter of real weather and working boats.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A crowded ferry heeling in a stiff breeze with a warship behind, real weather and working boats, for a study, hallway or coastal living room at 24×18 or 32×24 in black. A warm grey, deep blue or cream wall.
- Style
- Romanticism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1833)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 16×12, 24×18, 32×24 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard; 32×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; oak lightens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
The full-bleed edition
The painting printed edge-to-edge at its own proportions, filling the whole sheet — and available on gallery-wrapped canvas.
