Focus on Chichester Canal (painting) and discuss the abstract.
Chichester Canal is a painting by the English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker J. M. W. Turner. It was painted in 1828 and was commissioned by George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont. It is now in the Tate Collection.
The work depicts the Chichester Canal in Sussex, southern England. The ship is probably a collier brig, as this serene scene had commercial purpose. Its brilliant colours may have been influenced by atmospheric ash from the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia (see also Year Without a Summer).
Chichester Canal Romantic landscape painter collier brig George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont watercolour Tate Year Without a Summer printmaker Tate Collection Mount Tambora J. M. W. Turner ash