Title

Rockets And Blue Lights (Close At Hand) To Warn Steamboats Of Shoal Water, 1840. Creator: JMW Turner.

Caption

Rockets And Blue Lights (Close At Hand) To Warn Steamboats Of Shoal Water, 1840. Shows a storm raging in an English harbor town. Flares explode in the sky to alert ships to the location of shallow (shoal) water. On the shore huddled spectators stare out to sea, perhaps anxiously hoping their loved ones will survive the storm and return safely home.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A23_400

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82,7Mb (4,3Mb) / 20,8in x 15,5in / 6235 x 4638 (300dpi)

Keywords

weather storm transport transportation sea alert England people historical landscape boat boats arts painting stormy country warning spectators figure figures art seascape ship ships romantic spectator British museum geography English color location century steam boat gallery Britain rocket rockets concept exhibition exhibit flare flares steamboat steamboats romanticism art museum art gallery oil Painting Colour 19th century water transport Museum of Art nineteenth century culture history historic geographical feature Oil on canvas steamer boat JMW Turner J M W Turner Turner Joseph Mallord William Oil on canvas Romantic Era Joseph Mallord William Turner Joseph Turner art centre Clark Art Institute Turner JMW Heritage Art 19th-century J. M. W. Turner