The Life of J.M.W. Turner,: ... Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by His Friends and Fellow Academicians. By Walter Thornbury. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street, 1862 - 425 páginas |
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... Abbey ( an interior ) , there is the following inscription , written by the artist himself , on a flat pavement stone in the left - hand foreground of the Abbey . * WILLIAM TURNER , NATUS 1775 . But Turner loved to hide in a corner and ...
... Abbey ( an interior ) , there is the following inscription , written by the artist himself , on a flat pavement stone in the left - hand foreground of the Abbey . * WILLIAM TURNER , NATUS 1775 . But Turner loved to hide in a corner and ...
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... Abbey , Interiors of Exeter and Chester Cathedrals , ' Cottage from Nature , ' a view of a Mill in Derbyshire , and St. Nicholas's Church , Newcastle . In 1799 he had again removed , and we find him , while residing at No. 6 , Long Acre ...
... Abbey , Interiors of Exeter and Chester Cathedrals , ' Cottage from Nature , ' a view of a Mill in Derbyshire , and St. Nicholas's Church , Newcastle . In 1799 he had again removed , and we find him , while residing at No. 6 , Long Acre ...
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... Abbey " was remarkable for good daylight effect , still more for poetry and power ; the " Waterfall , " for its ponderous motion , though the objects round it are entirely artificial in colour . His " Easby Abbey , Yorkshire , " the ...
... Abbey " was remarkable for good daylight effect , still more for poetry and power ; the " Waterfall , " for its ponderous motion , though the objects round it are entirely artificial in colour . His " Easby Abbey , Yorkshire , " the ...
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... . Turner's largest works show the negative tints and pale colour of the stained drawing kind . The " Malmesbury Abbey , " date 1791 , and a view from Cook's Folly , on the MODES OF WORKING . 145 River Avon , have the.
... . Turner's largest works show the negative tints and pale colour of the stained drawing kind . The " Malmesbury Abbey , " date 1791 , and a view from Cook's Folly , on the MODES OF WORKING . 145 River Avon , have the.
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... Abbey " shows him distancing his contemporaries . The tone is subdued . " Hornby Castle , Lincoln- shire , " shows him nearly at the top of the tree ; and " Edinburgh , " and the " Mist in the Valley d'Avon , " are fine examples of a ...
... Abbey " shows him distancing his contemporaries . The tone is subdued . " Hornby Castle , Lincoln- shire , " shows him nearly at the top of the tree ; and " Edinburgh , " and the " Mist in the Valley d'Avon , " are fine examples of a ...
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Abbey admirable afterwards architectural artist artist's proofs barber beautiful blue boats born Brentford Bridge Calais Carthage Castle Claude 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 shadows 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 300 - 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 320 - 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 191 - 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 192 - 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 192 - 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 187 - Cowdenknowes,' the pastoral valley of the Leader, and the bleak wilderness of Lammermoor. To the eastward the desolate grandeur of Hume Castle breaks the horizon, as the eye travels towards the range of the Cheviot. A few miles westward, Melrose, " like some tall rock with lichens grey...
Página 161 - 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 337 - 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 225 - Cupid in attendance; and if it had wings like a dove, to flee away and be at rest, the rest would not be the worse for the change. Thorwaldsten is closely engaged on the late Pope's (Pius VII.) monument. Portraits of the superior animal, man, is to be found in all. In some the inferior — viz., greyhounds and poodles, cats and monkeys, &c.
Página 155 - I do not know in what district of England Turner first or VOL. I.— 13 longest studied, but the scenery whose influence I can trace most definitely throughout his works, varied as they are, is that of Yorkshire.