William Turner: 4 landscape paintings (1835-44) in a set, version framed in silver colour

The four pictures presented here are high-quality editions on laid paper-like, heavy 250g Gmund Tactile. Framed in a sophisticated, silver-coloured solid wood frame, glazed. Format 38 x 48 cm (H/W) each. ars mundi exclusive editions. 'The Last Voyage of the Temeraire' (1839): This is how the glory of the world passes: HMS Temeraire was a ship armed with 98 cannons that had been deployed at the famous Battle of Trafalgar. Here Turner shows her being towed by a steamship to the scrapping yard in the light of an exploding red sun. Original: 1838/39, oil on canvas, 90.7 x 121.6 cm, National Gallery, London 'Canal Grande' (1835): Venice attracted Turner again and again on his European travels, particularly because of the colours and the intense power of the light. The English painter used pure, unmixed colours and juxtaposed them in a complementary way to create light. This resulted in a series of light-flooded vedutas in which landscape and architecture merge into a vibrant surface. Original: 1835, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 'Moonlight over Lake Lucerne' (c. 1841-44): The moon shines delicately over the backdrop of the Rigi, the light reflecting in the surface of the lake flows through the entire painting. A breathtaking masterpiece! Original: c. 1841-44, watercolour and opaque paint, 23 x 30.7 cm, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 'Sunset over a Lake' (1840): Turner on the verge of pure painting: the classical subject of the sunset as a diffuse explosion of colours and forms, behind which the depicted world can at best only be guessed at. Original: 1840, oil on canvas, Tate Gallery, London All 4 paintings in the set.