Friday, 9 January 2015

J M W Turner: Dudley (1832)

Turner painted this picture of Dudley when my ancestors were still miners and nailers there. The place looked grim then. It's still grim now. Turner shows the sooty haze that led so many to horrific early deaths. Such was the Industrial Revolution. Never mind the good old days. There weren't any.

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