This work may be a response to a painting in which names like "Karolus Magnus" and (*) "Bonaparte" are inscribed in stone.
The subject of this painting came from the artist's viewing of a J. R. Cozens illustration decades earlier, while its aesthetic elements were inspired by an event witnessed while staying at Farnley Hall in Yorkshire. A man's silhouette is distinguishable from the crowd of armored figures in the corner of this painting, visible through the mist that obscures its right edge. Similar in style to its artist's Steam-Boat Off a Harbor's Mouth, this work was accompanied by a poem ending, "Capua's joys beware," an excerpt from the artist's unfinished epic, The Fallacies of Hope. This work may be a response to a painting in which names like "Karolus Magnus" and (*) "Bonaparte" are inscribed in stone. Salassians fight with the title figure's rearguard among the rocks at the bottom of this painting, in which a massive black storm cloud threatens to cover the orange-yellow sun in the upper left. For 10 points, name this painting by J. M. W. Turner showing a Carthaginian general performing the titular action.
The subject of this painting came from the artist's viewing of a J. R. Cozens illustration decades earlier, while its aesthetic elements were inspired by an event witnessed while staying at Farnley Hall in Yorkshire.
Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps [accept Snow Storm] 