Dudley Watercolour

Title: Dudley
Artist: J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851)

The old mount was inscribed 'A gift from the Artist to David Cox'.

Most of Turner's paintings were of landscapes and marine subjects but he did have an interest in the industrial revolution and its impact on society.

This picture was painted sometime between 1830 and 1832 following a visit to Dudley in 1830. With the castle and church in the background, symbols of traditional life, and furnaces and canal boats in the foreground, the painting illustrates the dramatic changes that the country was going through at the time.