Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1835 - The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834 - fine art print

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On the night of October 16, 1834, fire consumed the Houses of Parliament in London. Londoners gathered along the banks of the river Thames to gaze in awe at the horrifying spectacle. Initially, a low tide made it difficult to pump water to fire-fighting equipment on land; likewise, it hampered steamers towing fire-fighting equipment up the river. Although the tides eventually shifted, the effort was futile, as the fire burned uncontrollably for hours. Turner records this as the steamers in the lower-right corner head toward the flames.Although Turner based the painting on an actual event, he used the disaster as the starting point to express man’s helplessness when confronted with the destructive powers of nature, here dissolved in brilliant swaths of color and variable atmospheric effects that border on abstraction.

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This painting was made by the male painter Joseph Mallord William Turner. The version of the painting was made with the size: Framed: 123,5 x 153,5 x 12 cm (48 5/8 x 60 7/16 x 4 3/4 in); Unframed: 92 x 123,2 cm (36 1/4 x 48 1/2 in) and was painted with oil on canvas. Today, the piece of art can be viewed in in the digital collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, which is one of the leading museums worldwide that builds, preserves, studies, and shares its outstanding collections of art from all periods and parts of the world, generating new scholarship and understanding, while serving as a social and intellectual hub for its community. With courtesy of: The Cleveland Museum of Art (public domain). Moreover, the artwork has the creditline: Bequest of John L. Severance. The alignment is landscape and has an aspect ratio of 4 : 3, meaning that the length is 33% longer than the width. The painter Joseph Mallord William Turner was an artist from the United Kingdom, whose style can primarily be classified as Romanticism. The artist was born in the year 1775 in London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom and deceased at the age of 76 in the year 1851.

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