Joseph Mallord William Turner

One of Twenty Vignettes - The Waterfall (Illustration to 'Gertrude of Wyoming')

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About this artwork

The Scottish National Gallery has the only set of Turner’s literary vignettes that remain together in one collection, his twenty illustrations for ‘The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell’. These were made to be engraved in Edward Moxon’s edition of Campbell’s poems, published in 1837. A copy of this book is in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery Print Room. Turner made two illustrations for the poem ‘Gertrude of Wyoming’ (see also D 5165), which is set around the massacre of European settlers which occurred in Wyoming in Pennsylvania in 1778. Turner concentrated on the idyllic pastoral and romantic elements of the story, rather than the horror of the massacre.

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner