Category: History - British
It is not known for certain exactly when or how Turner became acquainted with Mr. Walter Ramsden Hawksworth Fawkes of Farnley Hall. Several biographers say that Turner first met Mr. Fawkes about 1802, when the artist was in Yorkshire making drawings for one of the series of to...
The year 1817 saw the addition of a very important series of fifty drawings to Mr. Walter Fawkes’s already large collection. These were the famous Rhine drawings. The date of th...
3. Part 3Friday, 3 June ” Walter was this evening condemned to his bed. He kissed me and cried bitterly. Came back several times to kiss and said he knew he never more should get out of...
1. Part 1It is not known for certain exactly when or how Turner became acquainted with Mr. Walter Ramsden Hawksworth Fawkes of Farnley Hall. Several biographers say that Turner first met...
4. Part 4Details of the circumstances under which these fifty-one drawings were produced have been already given. No man, not even Turner, could possibly have sketched and worked up thes...
5. Part 5From the deer park on the Otley Chevin we look down on the houses and church of Otley, the “metropolis of Wharfedale,” as its inhabitants call it. Beyond, the Wharfe winds away...