Painting by J. M. W. Turner
The Dort , or Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed is an 1818 painting by J. M. W. Turner , based on drawings made by him in mid September 1817.[ 1] It shows a view of the harbour of Dordrecht . It is the finest example of the influence of Dutch marine painting on Turner's work.[ 2]
It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1818, where it was described by The Morning Chronicle as "one of the most magnificent pictures ever exhibited, and does honour to the age". In 1832, John Constable wrote of the picture, "I remember most of Turner's early works; amongst them one of singular intricacy and beauty; it was a canal with numerous boats making thousands of beautiful shapes, and I think the most complete work of a genius I ever saw".
It was purchased by Walter Fawkes for 500 guineas at the request of his son, and hung in the drawing room at Farnley Hall until it was bought by Paul Mellon in 1966. It was then donated to the Yale Center for British Art upon the founding of the centre.[ 3]
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Paintings
Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795 –1800)
Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795 –1800)
Diana and Callisto (c. 1796 )
Fishermen at Sea (1796)
Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797 )
Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797 )
Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797)
Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798 )
Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower (1798)
Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798 )
Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798)
Shipping by a Breakwater (1798)
Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798 )
View of a Town (c. 1798 )
Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799)
Self-Portrait (c. 1799 )
View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle – Evening (c. 1799 –1800)
Welsh Mountain Landscape (c. 1799 –1800)
A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800 )
A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800 )
Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800 )
Calais Pier (1803)
View on Clapham Common (c. 1800 –1805)
The Shipwreck (1805)
Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour (1807)
View of Richmond Hill and Bridge (1808)
London from Greenwich Park (1809)
The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1810)
High Street, Oxford (1810)
Saltash with the Water Ferry (1811)
Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
Frosty Morning (1813)
Dido building Carthage, or, The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire (1815)
The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817)
Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (1818)
The Field of Waterloo (1818)
England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday (1819)
Rome, from the Vatican (1820)
The Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
The Bay of Baiae (1823)
Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening (1826)
Forum Romanum (1826)
Mortlake Terrace (1826)
Port Ruysdael (1826)
Chichester Canal (1828)
East Cowes Castle (1828)
Regulus (1828)
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832)
The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay (1832)
The Fountain of Indolence (1834)
The Golden Bough (1834)
Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834)
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 (1835)
Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835)
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835 )
The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up (1838)
Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839)
Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) (1840)
Venice, the Bridge of Sighs (1840)
Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
The Blue Rigi (1842)
The Red Rigi (1842)
Peace – Burial at Sea (1842)
War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842)
Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis (1843)
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844)
Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845)
Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845 )
Whalers (c. 1845 )
The Beacon Light (unknown)
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