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 pages |
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... death , Mr. Turner , the engraver , made a drawing of him which is a fair likeness . Turner , the son , hear- ing of the circumstance , said it must be destroyed ; and the engraver , to pacify him , made a copy of it , which he gave up ...
... death , Mr. Turner , the engraver , made a drawing of him which is a fair likeness . Turner , the son , hear- ing of the circumstance , said it must be destroyed ; and the engraver , to pacify him , made a copy of it , which he gave up ...
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... silk knee - breeches . But before I leave this social panorama of 1775 , year of Turner's birth , I would first mention the deaths of two old men , one rich , and one poor , in this the 36 BARBER'S TALK . year , that may show how D 2.
... silk knee - breeches . But before I leave this social panorama of 1775 , year of Turner's birth , I would first mention the deaths of two old men , one rich , and one poor , in this the 36 BARBER'S TALK . year , that may show how D 2.
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... death , while he certainly never spelt correctly . Nothing can be more untrue than most of these statements , which arose , like most scandal , partly from ignorance and partly from malice . Turner was reasonably well edu- cated ; we ...
... death , while he certainly never spelt correctly . Nothing can be more untrue than most of these statements , which arose , like most scandal , partly from ignorance and partly from malice . Turner was reasonably well edu- cated ; we ...
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... death deprived him of a master ; and em- ployment on topographical works sent him wandering in Kent , Wiltshire , Yorkshire , and Oxfordshire . On the banks of the Thames - our dear , dirty , old river - Turner began his art : on the ...
... death deprived him of a master ; and em- ployment on topographical works sent him wandering in Kent , Wiltshire , Yorkshire , and Oxfordshire . On the banks of the Thames - our dear , dirty , old river - Turner began his art : on the ...
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... in his pictures by disguising them , and to use all kinds of playing shadows and glittering lights to obscure their ugly details ; and as in their best state such buildings are 62 DEATH ON HIS THRONE . white and colourless ,
... in his pictures by disguising them , and to use all kinds of playing shadows and glittering lights to obscure their ugly details ; and as in their best state such buildings are 62 DEATH ON HIS THRONE . white and colourless ,
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.