[10] “The principal object in the foreground of Turner’s ‘Building of Carthage’ is a group of children sailing toy boats. The exquisite choice of this incident … is quite as appreciable when it is told, as when it is seen—it has nothing to do with the technicalities of painting; … such a thought as this is something far above all art.”
John Ruskin,
Art Professor: Modern Painters.
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TURNER, Joseph Mallord William
Dido Building Carthage, or The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire
1815
Oil on canvas
155.5 x 230 cm.
Turner Bequest, 1856.
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