NPU 10: RAIN, STEAM and SPEED by W. Turner

'Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway'
(before 1844) an oil painting by Joseph Mallord William TURNER.

Clouds of steam and clouds of rain.


This painting, now at the National Gallery in London is already Modern: by its impressionistic style and by its title.
Railway, even at that time is already "the speed" and "the machine". But the weather and the distance used by Turner already suggest the caution that we have, now, for the speed and the machines.