Description: An engraving by J Walker from an original by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) published in 1795. The original of this is part of the Tate Gallery's Turner collection, Transferred from the British Museum in 1988 and can be viewed by appointment (quote T05885 Rawlinson number: 3). The English landscape artist J.M.W.Turner, was a Londoner born and bred, and went to the Royal Academy School of art when he was only 15 years old. One year later his picture was accepted in the Summer Exhibition of 1790. By 1794 Turner become famous as a topographical draughtsman, producing original pictures for engravings. Turner did the picture seen here as part of his famous series of paintings and drawings of castles which he did whilst touring the British Isles as a young man. Elected an Associate of the Academy, which was very supportive of his free art style that evolved after his study of the Classic artist movement of old Master painters. Turner studied the science of light and colour, the theory in particular that yellow was closest colour to the production of white light in painting. Amongst his contemporaries he was a unique artist, both in freeing himself from all past artist traditions and art movements. He was to open the way for a visionary anticipation of modern painting.