Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening

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Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening - c 1826 - The Frick Collection.jpg
Artist J. M. W. Turner
Year1826
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions168.6 cm× 224.2 cm(66.4 in× 88.3 in)
Location Frick Collection, New York City
Accession1914.1.119
Website collections.frick.org/objects/136/cologne-the-arrival-of-a-packetboat-evening

Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening is an 1826 landscape painting by the British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. [1] [2] It shows a scene as the Rhine River passes through the city of Cologne as a packet boat arrives. Visible on the skyline to the right is Great St. Martin Church, Cologne.

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It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's 1826 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House along with the artist's Mortlake Terrace . Today it is in the Frick Collection in New York. [3]

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