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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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Wreck off Hastings
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| Of perfect a sympathy had Turner with all the forces of Nature. that
it would be an endless argument which should endeavour to discuss
exhaustively with which he had the deepest feeling. By turns it is the
sky, the earth, the sea, the rain, the sun, the cloud, whose influence
appears to be greatest in his pictures; but when we come to consider the
matter, we find that the pre-eminence is due to the subject of the
picture, In this picture no one can fail to be struck with the force
with which the cliffs are drawn; their strength and solidity are
insisted upon; they stand firm and unchangeable, despite the violence of
the storm above and the violence of the sea below. The waves shatter
themselves in mist against their feet; the clouds break against their
heads in mist, and adorn their sides with shadows; yet it is the sea and
the cloud that have the victory. What can those giant but immovable
cliffs avail against the active fury of the sea? The cliffs may be safe,
but they are powerless to help, and the sea can and does destroy as it
will, What avail is the eternal security of the shore to those
unfortunate men upon the wreck? And man himself—what a pitiful small
thing he looks, whether on sea or shore, whether longing to save or to
be saved! Separated but a few yards, and yet by such an impassable gulf!
What an imposture are those giant cliffs what a stern reality the cruel
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