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.

Wreck off Hastings

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 sea

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