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Sun Setting through Vapour
Sun Setting through Vapour
ArtistJ.M.W. Turner
Year1809
TypeOil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions69.2 cm × 101.6 cm (27.2 in × 40.0 in)
LocationBarber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham

Sun Setting through Vapour is an 1809 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. It depicts a scene on the coast of England, the bright sun blending with the mist in the air. In the foreground fisherman are shown on the beach with their catch. Prominently out to sea is a Royal Navy ship-of-the-line (sometimes identified as Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar HMS Victory). Behind it lies a prison hulk, a further reference to the ongoing Napoleonic Wars.

It is also known by the alternative title Sun Rising through Vapour, a name it shares with a painting in the collection of the National Gallery in London.[1] The painting was purchased by Turner's friend and client Walter Fawkes.[2] It is now in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham, having been acquired in 1938.[3]

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