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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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View of Orvieto
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| A view only—but what a view Is there anywhere but in Italy that one
could see such an artist's paradise. of land and sky and town-capped
hill? Only southern air and sun could develop that magnificent
stone-pine, spreading its odoriferous fanlike boughs against a pure blue
sky. It is only a view; but does not that add a charm to it? Is it not
the more our own? can we not make it absolutely our own for a while. if
we look at it, feeding our eyes upon the lovely expanse of hill and
dale. until we enter into it, and feel the sky above us and the city
attainable in a walk To those who have never seen the picture, this feat
of fancy may appear impossible; but to those we say: “Go to the National
Gallery and see it, and sit down or stand before it, and look at it
steadily, without thinking of what is to the right, or to the left, or
above or below it, or what more you have got to see, or what time of day
it is; and if after such concentration for a little while you do not
feel that you are in Italy, Turner will have painted for you in Italy,
Turner will have painted for you in vain |
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