Shop art print and framed art The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner
Subjects : History, Landscape, Seascape
Keywords : London, destruction, fire, river
(Ref : 147718) © The John Howard McFadden Collection / Bridgeman Images
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner(Ref : 147718) © The John Howard McFadden Collection / Bridgeman Images
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The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October 1834
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons' - a painting by William Turner painted in 1834. It is now in the Museum of Art in Philadelphia.
The painting was created in 1834. Turner, on the night of 16 October 1834, witnessed with many thousands of people the fire of the House of Lords and the House of Commons. He watched it with some students from a boat on the Thames. He then made two portfolios of sketches, one in watercolour and the other with a lead stick. He later painted an oil painting based on [...]
This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the romanticism style.