A Paddle-steamer in a Storm by Turner, 1841 tilburg and The North Sound

and The North Sound

John James Audubon is renowned for his extraordinary contributions to ornithology and natural history

faithfully reproduced from the original stone lithograph

and the pared-back geometry feels both timeless and unmistakably mid-century

A Paddle-steamer in a Storm by Turner, 1841 tilburg and The North SoundA Paddle steamer in a Storm by Joseph Mallord William Turner, painted in 1841, plunges us into the awe and terror of the sea at the height of the Romantic era. Turner, the great poet of atmosphere and light, sets a steamdriven vessel against a heaving expanse of ocean and cloud, inviting the viewer to contemplate the sublime power of nature and the fragile audacity of human invention. Created during a period when steamships were transforming travel