The Junction of the Thames and the Medway
1807 · 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
- 1807
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 108.8 × 143.7 cm
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- Movement
- Romanticism
Boats pitch in a heavy swell where the Thames meets the Medway off the Kent coast, under a sky of torn cloud. Turner painted it in 1807, in his early thirties, when he was studying the Dutch marine painters of the seventeenth century and making a speciality of the choppy estuary waters below London. Rather than send it to the Royal Academy, he showed it in his own gallery in Queen Anne Street, where it was bought that year by Thomas Lister Parker. The canvas later belonged to the Birmingham collector Joseph Gillott, one of the great Victorian buyers of Turner's work, and passed through several further English collections. It entered the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1942 with the Widener Collection, an early marine from the years in which Turner made his name.
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
Boats pitching in a heavy swell under torn cloud, an early marine in the Dutch manner, for a study, hallway or coastal living room at 24×18 or 32×24 in black. Warm grey, deep blue or cream; it sits with the Dutch seascapes.
- Style
- Romanticism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1807)
- 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).
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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.
