Joseph Mallord William Turner

Evening (Datur Hora Quieti), for Rogers’s ‘Poems’

c.1830–2

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Watercolours Related to Samuel Rogers’s Poems
Medium
Watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 242 × 308 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D27716
Turner Bequest CCLXXX 199

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The view depicted here has so far not been identified, and may well be fanciful, for the subject is really concerned with the mood associated with a specific time of day. Turner's title invokes the early evening when the horses are liberated from the plough and the shadows begin to lengthen.

Gallery label, September 1995

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