Category: British Literature
The Editor desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to the following collectors of Turner’s water-colours who have kindly lent their drawings for reproduction in this volume:--Mr. C. Morland Agnew, Sir Hickman Bacon, Bart., Mr. Ralph Brocklebank, Rev. William MacGregor, Mr. W....
Then he often had a deep meaning in his pictures, beyond what was to be seen on the surface, beyond, perhaps, what he himself could have always explained. Sometimes, no doubt, i...
5. Part 5The success of the first _Norham Castle_ drawing induced Turner to repeat the subject several times. The late Mrs. Thwaites had another water-colour of it in her collection, the...
1. Part 1The Editor desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to the following collectors of Turner’s water-colours who have kindly lent their drawings for reproduction in this volume:--Mr...
3. Part 3In 1817 or 1818 Turner began the drawings which were to illustrate one of his most famous works, the sumptuous “History of Richmondshire,” which still admittedly remains the fin...
2. Part 2From 1793 to 1796 Turner’s advance in power was steady. His subjects were varied--English and Welsh cathedrals, old castles, ruined abbeys, village churches, country towns, wate...
6. Part 6Let us begin with the current conception--the conception of the landscape artist of to-day and of the public for which he works. The aim of this art is what is called “naturalne...