Turner's Sketches and DrawingsFinberg, A. J. (Alexander Joseph)
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Turner's Sketches and Drawings
Finberg, A. J. (Alexander Joseph)
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
[7] For it appears that there is some doubt about the matter. The
Rev. E. S. Dewick possesses another version of this subject, similar
in size and design, but very inferior in workmanship. The clumsiness
and woodenness of the workmanship have been taken as evidence that
the drawing was an earlier one than that at Cardiff. But it may also
indicate that it is merely the work of an unskilful copyist.
[8] Cf. Bosanquet’s _History of Æsthetic_, p. 277; also Kant’s _Kritik
of Judgment_, sections 28 and 29.
[9] _Op. cit._ (Dr. Bernard’s translation), p. 141.
[10] _Op. cit._ p. 125.
[11] The conventional eighteenth-century attitude towards these scenes
seems well expressed by a description in Paterson’s _Road Book_. ‘To
the south of the Derwentwater,’ the passage runs, ‘is the rocky chasm
of Borrowdale, a tremendous pass, at the entrance of which dark caverns
yawn terrific as the wildness of a maniac, etc.,’ page 435.
[12] Wordsworth, _Prelude_, Bk. xii. 118-120.
[13] See Plate XVI. for the study for the Farnley
picture.
[14] See Plate XXXVII.
[15] Plate XXXVIII.
[16] Plate XXVII (_b_).
[17] _The Prelude_, Bk. xiii. l. 287 _sq._
[18] See, for example, Jeffrey’s account of the Sixth Book of the
_Excursion_, quoted in Professor Raleigh’s _Wordsworth_, pp. 8 and 9.
[19] It is, of course, possible that the verses were composed by Turner
himself.
[20] Plate XXXIX.
[21] Bell, Article on ‘Turner and his Engravers,’ in _The Genius of
Turner_ (Studio Extra), pp. 142-143.
[22] _Turner Catalogue_, written in 1881. National Gallery edition,
1899, p. 37.
[23] _Ibid._
[24] It is also worth remarking that the value of these drawings from
a topographical point of view, _i.e._ as giving information pure and
simple, is probably diminished by the fact that the material they
contain is so skilfully selected and arranged.
[25] _Modern Painters_, vol. i. p. 132.
[26] _Ibid._ p. 130.
[27] _Elements of Drawing_, Preface, p. X.
[28] Plate LVII.
[29] ‘Turner and Mulready.--On the Effect of certain Faults of Vision,
etc.’ By R. Liebreich. _Macmillan’s Magazine_, April 1872.
[30] _The Sense of Beauty_, by George Santayana. A. & C. Black, 1896,
p. 149.
[31] This, I need hardly add, is Mr. Ruskin’s explanation.
[32] Hamerton’s _Turner_, p. 244.
[33] See, for example, Professor C. J. Holmes’s _Notes on the Science
of Picture-Making_. Introduction.
[34] Two of these studies are reproduced in _The Genius of Turner_.
[35] See Dr. Bosanquet’s _Essentials of Logic_, p. 91 _sq._
[36] The transition is from the singular to the universal judgment. See
Dr. Bosanquet’s _Logic_, vol. i. chap. v.; and _Essentials of Logic_,
p. 64 _sq._
[37] The best discussion of these points with which I am acquainted is
contained in Dr. Bosanquet’s _Knowledge and Reality_, pp. 140-155.
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