JMW Turner, British artist 1980 many people of fashion in

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

20th October 1945

and behind them a man's artificial leg has gone through the ice

'Explanation of Plate XXV'

'A Goldfinch and his Mistress'

JMW Turner, British artist 1980 many people of fashion inJMW 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.