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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... grey - blue eyes and arched eyebrows ; careless in dress , and generally a sturdy , determined , prudent boy , with an irresistible bias towards art . For I know not what reason , father determines now to send William to his third ...
... grey - blue eyes and arched eyebrows ; careless in dress , and generally a sturdy , determined , prudent boy , with an irresistible bias towards art . For I know not what reason , father determines now to send William to his third ...
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... grey lantern chapel , just as when Turner first rowed past it to make his moonlight drawing at Millbank . Nor must I here forget another spot of old London that is connected with Turner's memory . 42 THE GALLERY IN PRIORY GARDENS . In 1758 ...
... grey lantern chapel , just as when Turner first rowed past it to make his moonlight drawing at Millbank . Nor must I here forget another spot of old London that is connected with Turner's memory . 42 THE GALLERY IN PRIORY GARDENS . In 1758 ...
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... grey . Hence he never got thoroughly into the feeling of Gothic ; its darkness and complexity embarrassed him . He was very apt to whiten by way of idealizing it , and to cast aside its details in order to get breadth of delicate light ...
... grey . Hence he never got thoroughly into the feeling of Gothic ; its darkness and complexity embarrassed him . He was very apt to whiten by way of idealizing it , and to cast aside its details in order to get breadth of delicate light ...
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... grey paling ; by degrees , and timidly , colour began to rise over his works , and tinge them with lustre and beauty . From Piranesi , Girtin got vigour ; from Canaletti , 106 SKETCHING TRIPS . his firm staccato touch ; but.
... grey paling ; by degrees , and timidly , colour began to rise over his works , and tinge them with lustre and beauty . From Piranesi , Girtin got vigour ; from Canaletti , 106 SKETCHING TRIPS . his firm staccato touch ; but.
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... grey , com- posed of light red and indigo , or , brighter still , with ultramarine and light red . The brick buildings with Roman ochre , light red , and lake , and a mixture of Roman ochre , lake , and indigo , or Roman ochre , madder ...
... grey , com- posed of light red and indigo , or , brighter still , with ultramarine and light red . The brick buildings with Roman ochre , light red , and lake , and a mixture of Roman ochre , lake , and indigo , or Roman ochre , madder ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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.