Artwork Title: A cirrocumulus cloud study

A cirrocumulus cloud study, 1803-1811

Luke Howard

The clouds in many 19th-century European paintings look drastically different than those in the 18th century. There are layers to their texture, with wisps of cirrus clouds flying over billowing cumulus, and stratus hovering low. Clouds weren’t classified by type until 1802, and their subsequent study influenced artists from John Constable to J. M. W. Turner. http://wowgreat.tumblr.com/post/136868013429/hyperallergic-the-clouds-in-many-19th-century
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