Exhibition Information
Posted: 02/09/2016
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars
1816: Prints by Turner, Goya and Cornelius
The Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge,
United Kingdom.
02/09/2016 -
07/31/2016.
Exhibiting artist(s): Goya, J. M. W. Turner, Peter Cornelius.
A look across Europe at three series of prints by major artists published in 1816, the year of the founding of the Fitzwilliam.
The period was known as ‘The year without a summer’ due to the after-effects of the 1815 volcano eruption in Indonesia. Global cooling, volcanic ash, darkness, crop failures, food riots and spectacular sunsets influenced artists and writers of the time. A variety of responses can be seen here with Goya’s Tauromaquia, books eleven and twelve of Turner’s Liber Studiorum, and Peter Cornelius’s large-scale Illustrations to Goethe’s Faust.
The period was known as ‘The year without a summer’ due to the after-effects of the 1815 volcano eruption in Indonesia. Global cooling, volcanic ash, darkness, crop failures, food riots and spectacular sunsets influenced artists and writers of the time. A variety of responses can be seen here with Goya’s Tauromaquia, books eleven and twelve of Turner’s Liber Studiorum, and Peter Cornelius’s large-scale Illustrations to Goethe’s Faust.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, 19th Century