A Limekiln, Possibly at Briton Ferry in South Wales
Date:
ca. 1795-96
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
11 3/8 x 15 7/8 inches (28.9 x 40.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.636
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
landscape | carts | ovens | oven | lime kiln | valley (landform) | cavern | furnace | smoke | night | light | industry | men | rocks (landforms) | sky | horses (animals) | fires
Associated Places:
Europe | United Kingdom | Briton Ferry | Wales
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)Turner and the Masters (Tate Britain, 2009-09-21 - 2010-01-24)Turner and the Masters (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2010-02-22 - 2010-05-23)Turner and the Masters (Museo del Prado, 2010-06-21 - 2010-09-19)Moonlight and Firelight (Tate Britain, 1998-06-06 - 1998-11-01)Turner and the Scientists (Tate Britain, 1998-03-03 - 1998-06-28)Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)J. M. W. Turner - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1968-10-31 - 1969-04-21)
Publications:
Timothy J. Barringer, Picturesque and sublime : Thomas Cole's trans-Atlantic inheritance, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2018, p. 47, fig. 39, NJ18 .C67 B37 2018 (YCBA)Mila Boutan, Turner et Moi, RMN Jeunesse, Paris, 2010, p. 25, No copy available at Yale Only locations given in WorldCat (4/21/12) are in France. N.B. This is a book written for a "Juvenile" audienceMartin Butlin, The paintings of J.M.W. Turner, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1984, pp. 20-21, 30, no. 22, pl. 17, NJ18 T85 B885 1984 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 224-225, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water : oil sketches by British watercolorists, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, p. 57, fig. 61, ND467 C67 (YCBA)Guillaume Faroult, Turner et ses peintres : album de l'exposition, , Editions Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2010, p. 30, fig. 24, NJ18 T85 F37 2010 (YCBA)Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 67, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)Charlotte Gould, British art and the environment : changes, challenges, and responses since the Industrial Revolution, New York, 2022, p. 167, fig. 10.1, N8217.E28 B75 2022 (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 79, 181, no. V.7, pl. 64, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)J.M.W. Turner : a selection of paintings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1968, pp. 12, 17, no. 2, fig. 2, NJ18 T85 U5 (YCBA)Frederic Ogee, Turner : les paysages absolus, , Hazan, Paris, 2010, p. 55, NJ18 T85 O34 2010 (YCBA)Rembrandt: Britain's Discovery of the Master, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2018, p. 47, fig. 44, NJ18.R29 A12 2018 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, Scene and Sensibility, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, , April 29, 1983, p. 438, TLS Historical ArchiveGraham Reynolds, Turner, Thames & Hudson, London, 2020, fig. 18, NJ18.T85 R49 2020 (YCBA)David H. Solkin, Turner and the masters, Tate Publishing, London, 2009, pp. 108-109, fig. 9, NJ18 T85 T8352 2009+ (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, p. 255-256, no. P22, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA)