The Junction of the Thames and Medway | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Artist | J. M. W. Turner |
Year | 1807 |
Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
Dimensions | 108 cm× 143.7 cm(43 in× 56.6 in) |
Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
The Junction of the Thames and the Medway is an 1807 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner that depicts a meeting of the River Thames and the tributary the River Medway. [1] Like many of Turner's nautical works of his early career it shows the influence of seventeenth century Dutch seascapes.
The work was one of a number of paintings that Turner displayed in his own studio gallery at Queen Anne Street in Marylebone rather than the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. [2] Today the painting is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., having been acquired in 1942. [3]