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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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St Michael's Mount, Cornwall
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| The subject of this beautiful picture, now in the
Sheepshanks Collection at South Kensington, is a remarkable granite
rock, about a circumference and two hundred and fifty feet high, in
Mounts Bay, Cornwall. It has been famous from the very early times in
the Phoenician merchants used to come to Cornwall for tin; it was a
favourite resort for worship of the Ancient Britons, and, soon after the
introduction of Christianity, became a place of pilgrimage. Here a
hermitage was founded in the fifth century by St. Kelna, and afterwards
a Benedictine Priory was built here. the refectory of which is now the
dining-room of the present proprietor. Sir J. St. Aubyn, Bart. Around
its base and covered with sand there are the remains of a forest. This
rock and the building on its summit also played a part in the civil war,
when it was fortified by Charles I. and taken by Colonel Hammond.
Turner, by a clever management of clouds and light, has made the curious
rock with its picturesque castle stand out in all its peculiar beauty,
and any one can discern, even in the engraving, the marvellous power
with which the wet shining sand and its reflections are painted by the
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