In this dramatic vignette for The Pleasures of Hope, Turner depicts the hope offered by God, illustrating Campbell’s lines ‘Tis Heaven’s commanding trumpet, long and loud,/ Like Sinai’s Thunder, pealing from the clouds’. Moses and his brother Aaron stand before the people of Israel in the foreground, with the two tablets of the Law, while God appears above with outstretched arms amid a blinding burst of lightning. Turner shows Noah’s Ark deluged by rain in the distance, as a symbol of eternal hope. Although this watercolour was destined to be published as a monochrome print, Turner uses brilliant reds and ultramarines, intended to indicate light, tone and texture to the engraver.