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Recording Disaster

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Martha Lattie

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The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 1834 by JWM Turner, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

A huge event that the whole city turned out to see, Turner recorded the fire at Parliament at different times of the fire and from different vantage points.

Turner, Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, The Cleveland Museum of Art
Turner, Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, The Cleveland Museum of Art
JWM Turner, Burning of the Houses of Parliment , Tate
JWM Turner, Burning of the Houses of Parliment , Tate

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