After Joseph Mallord William Turner View of London from Greenwich Park View of London from Greenwich Park Oil on canvas 30 x 50 inches (76.2 x 127 cm) The original of this composition is in the Tate Gallery in London. It shows a striking view of the city over the Queen's House and Greenwich Hospital toward St Paul's Cathedral and the city churches rising through the smoke of the metropolis. For the exhibition of the Tate painting in 1809, Turner wrote a verse to describe this view the . . .Commercial care and busy toil . . . Whose murky veil, aspiring to the skies/Obscures thy beauty, and thy form denies/Save where thy spires pierce the doubtful air/As gleams of hope amidst a world of care. C
Glue relined. Scattered touches of restoration in the sky in the upper right quadrant; some restoeratin of the clouds in the upper left quadrant. Some lines of the left tower of Greenwich Hospital have been reinforced.
After Joseph Mallord William Turner View of London from Greenwich Park View of London from Greenwich Park Oil on canvas 30 x 50 inches (76.2 x 127 cm) The original of this composition is in the Tate Gallery in London. It shows a striking view of the city over the Queen's House and Greenwich Hospital toward St Paul's Cathedral and the city churches rising through the smoke of the metropolis. For the exhibition of the Tate painting in 1809, Turner wrote a verse to describe this view the . . .Commercial care and busy toil . . . Whose murky veil, aspiring to the skies/Obscures thy beauty, and thy form denies/Save where thy spires pierce the doubtful air/As gleams of hope amidst a world of care. C
Glue relined. Scattered touches of restoration in the sky in the upper right quadrant; some restoeratin of the clouds in the upper left quadrant. Some lines of the left tower of Greenwich Hospital have been reinforced.
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