Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth

Snow Storm
ArtistJ. M. W. Turner
Year1842
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions91 cm × 122 cm (36 in × 48 in)
LocationTate, London, Great Britain
AccessionN00530
Websitetate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-snow-storm-steam-boat-off-a-harbours-mouth-n00530

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 English artist Joseph Mallord William 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".