JMW Turner Royal Academy Exhibition Poster - Durham Cathedral Print

Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner R.A. (British, 1775–1851)
Title: Durham Cathedral from the Bridge (1798–99)
Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London
Technique: Vintage offset lithographic exhibition poster
Dimensions: 51x71 cm
Status: Excellent vintage condition, unbacked
 
About the Poster:
This official vintage Turner Royal Academy Exhibition Poster was produced by the Royal Academy of Arts in London to celebrate Joseph Mallord William Turner’s masterful 1798 watercolor, Durham Cathedral from the Bridge. The composition features the massive medieval cathedral and castle complex rising through a soft, golden atmospheric haze over the River Wear. The upper section features prominent, elegant serif typography displaying the institutional name of the Royal Academy at Burlington House, Piccadilly. Printed on heavy art paper stock, this piece serves as a beautiful historic design artifact bridging classical English landscape painting with mid-to-late 20th-century museum graphic curation. 
 
About the Artist / Institution:
J.M.W. Turner is widely celebrated as one of Britain's greatest landscape painters and a fundamental forerunner of modern abstract watercolor painting and Impressionism. Elected as a full Royal Academician in 1802, his lifelong obsession with capturing fleeting atmospheric shifts, steam, fog, and light revolutionized the art world. The publisher, the Royal Academy of Arts, founded in 1768 by King George III, remains an internationally acclaimed artist-led institution dedicated to promoting the visual arts through world-class exhibitions and meticulous preservation of historic British masterpieces.