JMW Turner, British artist 1980 Behind and to the left

Behind and to the left is a landscape

many people of fashion in the neighbouring villages sat in their coaches till day-break

'Explanation of Plate XXV'

View of old houses in Bartholomew Close with a shop

JMW Turner, British artist 1980 Behind and to the leftJMW Turner, British artist, 19th century (1956). Known as the painter of light, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 1851) is regarded as posibly the greatest British landscape painter. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.