Title: Snow Storm
Description: Snow Storm, or Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, (full title: Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the "Ariel" left Harwich) is a painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner (1775 - 1851) from 1842. Though panned by many contemporary critics, critic John Ruskin commented in 1843 that it was "one of the very grandest statements of sea-motion, mist and light, that has ever been put on canvas".
Author(s): J. M. W. Turner