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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... GIRTIN CHAPTER VIII . TURNER , THE DRAWING - MASTER . CHAPTER IX . RISE AND PROGRESS OF WATER - COLOUR PAINTING IN ENGLAND . TURNER IN YORKSHIRE CHAPTER X. 91 · 101 128 142 • 150 xiv CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . CHAPTER XI .
... GIRTIN CHAPTER VIII . TURNER , THE DRAWING - MASTER . CHAPTER IX . RISE AND PROGRESS OF WATER - COLOUR PAINTING IN ENGLAND . TURNER IN YORKSHIRE CHAPTER X. 91 · 101 128 142 • 150 xiv CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . CHAPTER XI .
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... Yorkshire , and Oxfordshire . On the banks of the Thames - our dear , dirty , old river - Turner began his art : on the banks of the Thames he lay down to die . How long Turner remained in the architect's office I cannot discover ...
... Yorkshire , and Oxfordshire . On the banks of the Thames - our dear , dirty , old river - Turner began his art : on the banks of the Thames he lay down to die . How long Turner remained in the architect's office I cannot discover ...
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... Yorkshire ; in fact , the in- crease of his business and employment — that greatest foe to love . In default of better dates , let us call it some tearful day in 1796 that the lovers part ; not heeding the omens of evil that bode in the ...
... Yorkshire ; in fact , the in- crease of his business and employment — that greatest foe to love . In default of better dates , let us call it some tearful day in 1796 that the lovers part ; not heeding the omens of evil that bode in the ...
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... Yorkshire " and " Art - Biographies " ) were published after his death for the benefit of his widow . Girtin , naturally bold and reckless , began soon to find that he was more than paying back by work the premium paid for his ...
... Yorkshire " and " Art - Biographies " ) were published after his death for the benefit of his widow . Girtin , naturally bold and reckless , began soon to find that he was more than paying back by work the premium paid for his ...
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... Yorkshire , even if considerable time had been given for the effort . But Mr. Fawkes sat beside the painter from the first stroke to the last . Turner took a piece of blank paper one morning after breakfast , outlined his ships ...
... Yorkshire , even if considerable time had been given for the effort . But Mr. Fawkes sat beside the painter from the first stroke to the last . Turner took a piece of blank paper one morning after breakfast , outlined his ships ...
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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.