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Artist J.M.W. Turner, RA. The Engravings. Perhaps the most
famous English
Romantic landscape artist. Turner products many engravings and was very
hands-on in there progress to printings.
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The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay
the Painting
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This picture is thus described in the Royal Academy Catalogue for 1832 :
“ The Prince of Orange, William III., embarked from Holland and landed
at Torbay, November 4th, 1688, after a stormy passage. The yacht in
which his Majesty sailed was, after many changes and services, finally
wrecked on Hamburg Sands, while employed in the Hull trade” (" History
of England”). We cannot say from what History of England Turner culled
this interesting piece of information, but the scene itself is thus
described by Macaulay :—“ A soft breeze sprung up from the south, the
mist dispersed, the sun shone forth, and under the mild light of an
autumnal noon the fleet turned back, passed round the lofty cape of
Berry Head, and rode safe in the harbour of Torbay. The disembarkation
immediately commenced. Sixty boats conveyed the troops to the coast. The
Prince soon followed. He landed where the quay of Brixham now stands—a
fragment of the rock on which the deliverer stepped from his boat has
been carefully preserved, and is set up as an object of public
veneration in the centre of that busy wharf.” |
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