The life of J.M.W. Turner, Volume 1 |
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... executed by the artist when he was about nine years old . The building is far from perpen- dicular . It is one of the boy's earliest works that I have yet heard of . I myself have not seen drawings of an earlier date than his eleventh ...
... executed by the artist when he was about nine years old . The building is far from perpen- dicular . It is one of the boy's earliest works that I have yet heard of . I myself have not seen drawings of an earlier date than his eleventh ...
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... executed at this time , and given to Mr. Harraway , are extant . They were executed at different periods , and show the various * Whose niece , Miss Dart , of St. James's - square , Bristol , still has the first picture Turner ever ...
... executed at this time , and given to Mr. Harraway , are extant . They were executed at different periods , and show the various * Whose niece , Miss Dart , of St. James's - square , Bristol , still has the first picture Turner ever ...
Page 44
... executed for Mr. Harraway during one of these holi- day and sketching visits . The face , weakly drawn , is simple and boyish , the long luxuriant curling hair falls down on his shoulders and frilled jacket ; the nostrils and mouth are ...
... executed for Mr. Harraway during one of these holi- day and sketching visits . The face , weakly drawn , is simple and boyish , the long luxuriant curling hair falls down on his shoulders and frilled jacket ; the nostrils and mouth are ...
Page 54
... execution , though prosaic and dry in style , and are careful and full of thought . The most interesting of them is one of Wanstead New Church , built by Mr. Hardwick - a rectangular , plain structure , rather in the meeting - house ...
... execution , though prosaic and dry in style , and are careful and full of thought . The most interesting of them is one of Wanstead New Church , built by Mr. Hardwick - a rectangular , plain structure , rather in the meeting - house ...
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... execution . In the front is a sexton digging a grave . It looks like almost a first effort of sketching in colours from nature . The same collection , probably dating from nearly the same time , shows Turner at Isleworth sketching the ...
... execution . In the front is a sexton digging a grave . It looks like almost a first effort of sketching in colours from nature . The same collection , probably dating from nearly the same time , shows Turner at Isleworth sketching the ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...