Port Calais Pier Harbor Fishermen Boats France J M W Turner 1880 Engraving

This fine picture, still in excellent preservation in our National Collection  is characterized not only by great power in the painting of aud and sea, but also by much humour in the figures, which are „,awn and painted with unusual spirit and care. It represents the old Calais Pier with its weatherworn timbers, and the harbour, with its boats and the English packet of the period—a small cutter—crowded with passengers. To those to whom the present short passage in a steamboat seems an eternity of suffering, this picture should be a comfort and a sermon on patience. The packet, though she has had a rough and tedious passage, has probably just arrived in time to escape a still worse experience, if we may judge of the approaching weather by the huge inky cloud that is quickly shutting up the sky. Notwithstanding this evil prospect the Calais fishermen are preparing to put to sea, and their wives are ministering to their wants. One of them is having an altercation with her husband about the amount of wine or brandy in the bottle she has given him, which he is holding up to the light with an angry face, showing it half empty, while another bottle in her own hand proves where the rest has gone.

140 year old steal engraving is from the book, The Turner Gallery: A Series of One Hundred and Twenty Engravings from the Works of the Late J. M. W. Turner, R.A. Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1880.

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper.

Condition: The reverse side: is blank, Type of paper: heavy.

Type of print: STEEL ENGRAVING, WHITE & BLACK (CLEAN)

Sheet Size 14.5 X 10.5 inches.

This is a highly detailed steel engraved illustration from one of the most famous books ever to capture the beauty J W Turners art, scenery & landscapes exquisite steel plate engraving.

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