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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... ground , in what might be called by many people a cellar , and spent much of their time there , keeping their upper rooms for special holidays and festivals . Turner mentioned his birthday as April the 23rd , in the first codicil of his ...
... ground , in what might be called by many people a cellar , and spent much of their time there , keeping their upper rooms for special holidays and festivals . Turner mentioned his birthday as April the 23rd , in the first codicil of his ...
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... ground pavement of this beautiful water - colour drawing of the in- terior of Westminster Abbey , bought by Mr. J. Dillon at the sale of Lord Harewood's pictures , in 1858. The colour of this drawing is a little blue , the figure ...
... ground pavement of this beautiful water - colour drawing of the in- terior of Westminster Abbey , bought by Mr. J. Dillon at the sale of Lord Harewood's pictures , in 1858. The colour of this drawing is a little blue , the figure ...
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... to say that at this time the Turner family lived chiefly in the under- ground kitchen or cellar , and that the water - colour drawings copied from Sandby and others , by the VOL . I. с 18 THE SPARK AND THE TRAIN . barber's son ,
... to say that at this time the Turner family lived chiefly in the under- ground kitchen or cellar , and that the water - colour drawings copied from Sandby and others , by the VOL . I. с 18 THE SPARK AND THE TRAIN . barber's son ,
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... ground where his dear friend and fellow- worker Girtin was afterwards to sleep ; from the heaps of Hesperides fruit ; from the flowers that still retain traditions of Eden ; from red roofs and driv- ing blasts of brown smoke ; from ...
... ground where his dear friend and fellow- worker Girtin was afterwards to sleep ; from the heaps of Hesperides fruit ; from the flowers that still retain traditions of Eden ; from red roofs and driv- ing blasts of brown smoke ; from ...
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... ground floor , entered by a little dark door on the left side of Hand - court . The window was a long , low one ; the stairs were narrow , steep , and winding ; the rooms low , dark , and small , but square and cosy , however dirty and ...
... ground floor , entered by a little dark door on the left side of Hand - court . The window was a long , low one ; the stairs were narrow , steep , and winding ; the rooms low , dark , and small , but square and cosy , however dirty and ...
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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.