Clouds
10 artworks
Alexander Cozens
Lake Albano, near Rome , 1750-1786
John Constable RA
Cloud Study, Hampstead, Tree at Right , 11 September 1821
John Constable
Rainstorm over the Sea , c.1824-28
J.M.W. Turner RA
The Fifth Plague of Egypt , 10 June 1808
William Henry Hunt
A passing shower at sea , by 1864
Cornelius Varley
Mountainous landscape , by 1873 [probably ca. 1805]
John Martin
Peter Graham RA
Homewards , 1882
Bertram Priestman RA
Near Wareham, Dorset , 1923
Sir George Clausen RA
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