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Joseph Mallord William Turner was a landscape painter, traveller, poet and teacher. He was described as ‘the greatest of the age’ by art critic John Ruskin and many people now consider him to be the first ‘modern’ painter. In 1797, at 22 years of age, Turner set out on an eight-week sketching tour of the North of England; a journey that transformed him from an architectural draughtsman to a poet of the landscape sublime. Turner: Northern Exposure illustrates this journey across three galleries in the areas visited by Turner on his northern tour. Each venue will host 13 stunning colour studies on loan from the Turner bequest at Tate alongside two of Turner’s sketchbooks, which he carried with him on his journey.