Notes by Mr. Ruskin on His Collection of Drawings by the Late J.M.W. Turner, RA., Exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Galleries: Also a List of the Engraved Works of that Master Shown at the Same TimeThe Society, 1878 - 188 من الصفحات |
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ABBEY Alps Altdorf Artist's Proofs beautiful Bicknell BLUE RIGHI bought Brandard BRIDGE BRINKBURN PRIORY calm cloud colour Denmark Hill Drawn and etched eighty guineas England and Wales English engraved by J. M. W. Engraved by J. T. Engraved by Jas Engraved by W engraver's proof Epilogue etched by J. M. W. father FLINT CASTLE foreground Goodall Graves Griffiths GROUP illustrations impression India proofs Italy J. M. W. Turner J. T. Willmore James Basire Keepsake Lake Lucerne Lake of Zug Liber Studiorum light lovely LUCERNE LAKE Lucerne Town Lupton Miller in vol mist mountain Munro of Novar National Gallery never NORHAM CASTLE original drawing Oxford painted Painters picture piece Poems possession published red Righi rock ROUEN Ruskin's collection Splugen Pass Stud towers VENICE vignette W. B. Cooke W. R. Smith Walker Wallis water-colour Whalley Windus
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الصفحة 6 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
الصفحة 10 - Morning breaks as I write, along those Coniston Fells, and the level mists, motionless and grey beneath the rose of the moorlands, veil the lower woods, and the sleeping village, and the long lawns by the lake-shore. Oh, that some one had but told me, in my youth, when all my heart seemed to be set on these colours and clouds, that appear for a little while and then vanish away, how little my love of them would serve me, when the silence of lawn and wood in the dews of morning should be completed...
الصفحة 5 - Munro : — to the practical teaching of that first patron, and the wise simplicity of watercolour study in which he was disciplined by him, and companioned by Girtin, the healthy and constant development of the youth's power is primarily to be attributed. The greatness of the power itself it is impossible to over-estimate. As in my own advancing life I learn more of the laws of noble art, I recognise faults in Turner to which once I was blind; but only as I recognise also powers which my boy's enthusiasm...
الصفحة 33 - But a time has now come when he recognises that all is not right with the world, a discovery contemporary probably with the more grave one that all was not right within himself. Howsoever, it came to pass that a strange and, in many respects, grievous metamorphosis takes place upon him about the year 1825.
الصفحة 77 - ... Painting, III, 987. Walpole corresponded with Gilpin, and on at least one occasion entertained him at Strawberry Hill. See Lit. Recoil., I, 360. » Nichols, Anecdotes of Bowyer, p. 238. gravers. . . . Moreover, note what he asserts in the preface: "The Art of Engraving was never more encouraged than in the present day, especially in England, where almost every man of taste is in some degree a collector of prints."22 In 1773 appeared in one volume a collection of certain of the works of Jonathan...
الصفحة 18 - ... picture, and a little broken pier running out into the water. For tenderness and beauty this little drawing (which is hardly more than a monochrome, the faint primrose of the sky being the only colour besides brown and grey in the picture) is unsurpassable, and is truly, to quote Mr. Ruskin's Catalogue, inestimable in its quiet tone, and grandeur of form perceived in simple things. But perhaps the greatest charm of "Vevay" lies in the intense feeling of peace and stillness which surrounds the...
الصفحة 30 - misty sunshine," is a rare copy of simple Nature, and on " Richmond, Yorkshire," we quote Mr. Ruskin : " There is no more lovely rendering of old English life. The scarcely altered sweetness of hill and stream, the baronial ruins on their crag, the old-fashioned town, with the little gardens behind each house, the winding walks for pleasure along the river-shore — all now devastated by the hell-blasts of avarice and luxury."* On the fifth group, " Reality — England Disquieted,
الصفحة 17 - And observe generally, Turner never, after this time, drew from nature without composing. His lightest pencil sketch was the plan of a picture, his completest study on the spot, a part of one.
الصفحة 40 - ... of the seven was composed by Turner to do honour to some of those buildings of which it is England's present boast that she needs no more. And, instead of Cathedrals, Castles, or Abbeys, the Hotel, the Restaurant, the Station, and the Manufactory must, in days to come, be the objects of her artist's worship.
الصفحة 38 - English phenomenon, and though he took in the midst of it, ignobly, an animal English enjoyment, acknowledging it all the while to be ugly and wrong. His sympathy with the sailor's part of it, however, is deeper than any other, and a most intimate element in his whole life and genius. No more wonderful drawing, take it all in all, exists, by his hand, than this one, and the sky is the most exquisite in my own entire collection of his drawings. It is quite consummately true, as all things are when...