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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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The Loretto Necklace
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| Very lovely picture of Italian scenery. On the height to the right is seen part of the town of Loretto with the Basilica. Down
the side of the hill a cascade falls to meet the river that rushes at its foot. In the middle distance a long viaduct of many arches
spans the river and the valley, and beyond stretches a wide prospect of hilly country. In the foreground the water makes its way
through huge blocks of stone, and the centre is occupied by a large tree to which it would be difficult to assign a name. Ruskin says
that Turner originally intended it for a stone-pine and afterwards altered it, adding the lower foliage, and so spoiled a very noble
work. Under the tree are two figures—a youth adorning a girl with the necklace which gives its name to the picture. “The Loretto
Necklace” was exhibited at the Royal Academy in the ‘year 1829, and was one of those pictures bequeathed by Turner to the nation. It
is one of the few large pictures of Italian scenery which Turner painted without classical or historical figures, and without any sad
or deep lesson peering though its leaves. |
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