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An oil painting of a rural landscape on a sunny day. In the foreground figures dance and celebrate on a hillside. In the background there is a river, trees, buildings and a bridge, with mountains in the distance. An oil painting of a rural landscape on a sunny day. In the foreground figures dance and celebrate on a hillside. In the background there is a river, trees, buildings and a bridge, with mountains in the distance.

JMW Turner, The Festival Of The Opening Of The Vintage At Macon, About 1803 © Sheffield Museums

JMW Turner, The Festival Of The Opening Of The Vintage At Macon, About 1803 © Sheffield Museums

JMW Turner, the Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon, France

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Graves Gallery

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Turner travelled through Mâcon in Burgundy during the grape harvest in 1802. This painting supposedly depicts the festival which accompanied the harvest, but is actually a view of the Thames from Richmond Hill in Surrey. It’s no less impressive for it though, and ones one of the real highlights of our Landscapes display.

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An oil painting of a rural landscape on a sunny day. In the foreground figures dance and celebrate on a hillside. In the background there is a river, trees, buildings and a bridge, with mountains in the distance.

Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Festival Of The Opening Of The Vintage At Macon, About 1803.

© Sheffield Museums

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