The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R. A.: Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by His Friends and Fellow Academicians, Volume 1Hurst and Blackett, 1862 - 636 páginas |
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... bridge that flung itself across the dull river , he took careful note . Of all ripples , quivering reflections , gleams , and sparkling currents he remembered , whether under Temple Gardens , Savoy steps , Inigo Jones's gateway , or Old ...
... bridge that flung itself across the dull river , he took careful note . Of all ripples , quivering reflections , gleams , and sparkling currents he remembered , whether under Temple Gardens , Savoy steps , Inigo Jones's gateway , or Old ...
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... Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo ( moonlight ) , by Marlow , is much praised by Dayes . Abraham Pether , Dayes calls an ingenious little man , being not merely a painter , but also an excellent musician and mechanic . He was famous for ...
... Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo ( moonlight ) , by Marlow , is much praised by Dayes . Abraham Pether , Dayes calls an ingenious little man , being not merely a painter , but also an excellent musician and mechanic . He was famous for ...
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... Bridge , " is the furthest afield he seems to have gone ; though " " Foreign Views " may be either copies , or some of the results of his last tour in France . It was at the house of Mr. Henderson , a great amateur of art , in the ...
... Bridge , " is the furthest afield he seems to have gone ; though " " Foreign Views " may be either copies , or some of the results of his last tour in France . It was at the house of Mr. Henderson , a great amateur of art , in the ...
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... bridges ; they did not forget the red brazen ruins seen through crimson fogs , or the molten gold of London sunsets . Back in London , Girtin was too frank and careless not to have many amateur followers . His imitators were jealous of ...
... bridges ; they did not forget the red brazen ruins seen through crimson fogs , or the molten gold of London sunsets . Back in London , Girtin was too frank and careless not to have many amateur followers . His imitators were jealous of ...
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... Bridge , in the same city . His next resi- dence , in 1798 , was at 25 , Henrietta - street , Covent- garden , in which year he exhibited nine drawings : - ' Coast of Dorset , ' ' Berry Pomeroy Castle , ' two drawings of Rivaux Abbey ...
... Bridge , in the same city . His next resi- dence , in 1798 , was at 25 , Henrietta - street , Covent- garden , in which year he exhibited nine drawings : - ' Coast of Dorset , ' ' Berry Pomeroy Castle , ' two drawings of Rivaux Abbey ...
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Abbey admirable afterwards architectural artist artist's proofs barber beautiful blue boats born Brentford Bridge Calais Carthage Castle clouds Coast colour copy Covent Garden Cozens dark Dayes death died distance early effect England English engraver eyes father figures foreground Gallery Garden genius Girtin grey guineas Hearne hills imitation Italy J. M. W. TURNER lake landscape Liber light lived London looking Lord Loutherbourg Maiden-lane Malton Margate mezzotint mind mountain Munro never numbers once painter Palace Paul Sandby pencil perhaps Petworth picture Plague of Egypt plates portrait proofs river Rome Royal Academy ruins Ruskin sails says scene scenery Scott seen shadow ship Sir Charles Eastlake sketch-books sketches skies Somerset House studies sunset Téméraire Thames tints touch tour trees Trimmer Turner exhibited Turner painted Twickenham Ulysses Venice visited water-colour drawings yellow Yorkshire
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Página 318 - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility : Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Página 189 - Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town...
Página 190 - Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow; On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep...
Página 298 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay ; The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Página 153 - Yorkshire ; of all his drawings I think those of the Yorkshire series have the most heart in them — the most affectionate, simple, unwearied, serious finishing of truth. There is in them little seeking after effect, but a strong love of place ; little exhibition of the artist's own powers or peculiarities, but intense appreciation of the smallest local minutiae.
Página 190 - But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor ought of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken.
Página 159 - But the most impressive scene, which formed the finale of the exhibition, was that representing the region of the fallen angels, with Satan arraying his troops on the banks of the Fiery Lake, and the rising of the Palace of Pandaemonium, as described by the pen of Milton.
Página 335 - Temeraire: so that these four ships formed as compact a tier as if they had been moored together, their heads lying all the same way. The lieutenants of the Victory...
Página 223 - Pray give my remembrances to Jones and Stokes, and tell him I have not seen a bit of coal stratum for months. My love to Mrs. Chantrey, and take the same and good wishes of, Yours most truly, JMW TURNER.