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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... rock it covers , for a moment , to an emerald wall . The fishermen's houses at Dover , and the pig - tailed sailors , when quite a boy he had copied and coloured from his patron Mr. Henderson's sketches . He had already visited Kent ...
... rock it covers , for a moment , to an emerald wall . The fishermen's houses at Dover , and the pig - tailed sailors , when quite a boy he had copied and coloured from his patron Mr. Henderson's sketches . He had already visited Kent ...
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... laying on a little more colour into parts not wet , and lastly dash in warm touches of light when dry on the outside edges . " In his advanced stage , and in finished drawings , VOL . I. K 130 FORT ROCK . he no doubt damped and soaked.
... laying on a little more colour into parts not wet , and lastly dash in warm touches of light when dry on the outside edges . " In his advanced stage , and in finished drawings , VOL . I. K 130 FORT ROCK . he no doubt damped and soaked.
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... ROCK . he no doubt damped and soaked and pumped on his paper , so as to be able to work with a wooden point . The superfluous colour he would remove , but he never stifled or muddled one tint with an- other ; nor would he use friction ...
... ROCK . he no doubt damped and soaked and pumped on his paper , so as to be able to work with a wooden point . The superfluous colour he would remove , but he never stifled or muddled one tint with an- other ; nor would he use friction ...
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... rock on the left of the picture ; in the lights , local colours are laid on primarily , and advanced by their own neutralized tints or shadows . " But even in this fine work it may be presumed that the flat masses of grey tint were ...
... rock on the left of the picture ; in the lights , local colours are laid on primarily , and advanced by their own neutralized tints or shadows . " But even in this fine work it may be presumed that the flat masses of grey tint were ...
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... slope at the bottom and wall at the top ; and had his attention early directed to those horizontal , or comparatively horizontal beds of rock which usually form the faces 152 THE SLOPING BANK . of precipices in the Yorkshire.
... slope at the bottom and wall at the top ; and had his attention early directed to those horizontal , or comparatively horizontal beds of rock which usually form the faces 152 THE SLOPING BANK . of precipices in the 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.