Focusing on 120 of J.M.W. Turner's works, this volume provides a survey of all the aspects of the Tate Turner collections, introducing not only familiar masterpieces but many other works - such as sketchbooks or prints. These highlight Turner's achievements and the many themes to his work.

Turner's lifetime was also the classic age of English watercolour, and his mastery and perfection of the medium coincided with its establishment as an independent art form. This volume examines the unique body of watercolours Turner produced throughout his lifetime. It also provides a context to the watercolours.

A fresh approach to Romanticism, one of the most compelling and revolutionary artistic movements. The author takes a thematic approach to this period, relating it to the concurrent, more stylistic movements of Neoclassicism and Gothic Revival, and discussing its relationship with politics.