Rain, Steam and Speed, 1843

J. M. W. Turner

Oil on canvas · 91 x 121.8 cm

A steam train dissolves into weather, barely more solid than the storm around it.

A train hurtles through rain across a bridge, dissolving into golden atmosphere — Turner's thrilling 1844 vision of the new railway age. Form melts into light and weather; it is speed and modernity painted decades before anyone else dared.

National Gallery

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