The life of J.M.W. Turner, Volume 1 |
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... picture of any size or consequence was a view of flustered and scurrying fishing - boats in a gale of wind off the Needles , which General Stewart bought for £ 10 . Mr. Bell also accompanied Turner on his first tour , which was one of ...
... picture of any size or consequence was a view of flustered and scurrying fishing - boats in a gale of wind off the Needles , which General Stewart bought for £ 10 . Mr. Bell also accompanied Turner on his first tour , which was one of ...
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... picture ( ac- cording to this tradition ) was finished . It was a view of Rochester Castle , with fishermen drawing their boats ashore in a gale of wind . It is well drawn , says one who has seen it , and bears a strong resemblance to ...
... picture ( ac- cording to this tradition ) was finished . It was a view of Rochester Castle , with fishermen drawing their boats ashore in a gale of wind . It is well drawn , says one who has seen it , and bears a strong resemblance to ...
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... picture . Malton's work struck me as very dull and unfeeling ; but it has a breadth which perhaps Girtin admired ... pictures , the figures seem put in at once by the brush without pencil outline . The same collection contains pencil ...
... picture . Malton's work struck me as very dull and unfeeling ; but it has a breadth which perhaps Girtin admired ... pictures , the figures seem put in at once by the brush without pencil outline . The same collection contains pencil ...
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... picture - makers and the picture- dealers . In the summer , there was his tour to sea- washed towns or pleasant inland cities ; in the winter , his sketching club and his days of quiet study . There was Turner , too , to meet and crack ...
... picture - makers and the picture- dealers . In the summer , there was his tour to sea- washed towns or pleasant inland cities ; in the winter , his sketching club and his days of quiet study . There was Turner , too , to meet and crack ...
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... 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 judiciously re- tained to ...
... 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 judiciously re- tained to ...
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 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 Scotland 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 296 - 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 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...
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 185 - 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 316 - 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 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 333 - 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 153 - Itspecullar , , v , , . ,.6 manifestation in 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...