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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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