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A. J. Finberg. Turner's Sketches and Drawings
Turner's Sketches and Drawings
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER I. SEVEN YEARS’ APPRENTICESHIP—1787-1793
CHAPTER II. THE TOPOGRAPHICAL DRAUGHTSMAN—1793-1796
CHAPTER III. THE SUBLIME—1797-1802
CHAPTER IV. THE SEA-PAINTER—1802-1809
CHAPTER V ‘SIMPLE NATURE’—1808-1813
CHAPTER VI. THE ‘LIBER STUDIORUM’
CHAPTER VII. THE SPLENDOUR OF SUCCESS, OR ‘WHAT YOU WILL’—1813-1830
CHAPTER VIII. MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DECAY, AND THE ORIGIN OF IMPRESSIONISM—1830-1845
CHAPTER IX. CONCLUSION
INDEX
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A. J. Finberg
Published by Good Press, 2021
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present owner of these drawings, but the water-colour of the old church was exhibited at the Old Masters (R.A.) in 1887. There is, however, in the National Gallery a pencil outline of the new church, squared for enlargement, which shows no signs of training in the practical work of the architect’s profession.
The earliest of Turner’s sketch-books now in the National Gallery was in use during the period of this connection with Mr. Hardwick. A pencil sketch of a church by the river, easily recognisable as Isleworth Old Church, with barges moored beside the bank, is probably the note from which the water-colour was made which Mr. Hardwick’s grandson lent to the Old Masters in 1887. Most of the other drawings, however, appear to have been made during a stay near Oxford. There are sketches of Clifton Nuneham (then Nuneham Courtenay), near Abingdon; of Radley Hall, between Abingdon and Oxford; of a distant view of Oxford; a sketch of a ruined tower which may represent Pope’s Tower in the ruins of the Harcourts’ house at Stanton Harcourt, and two drawings of Sunningwell Church, a village about two miles from Radley and three from Abingdon. As Turner’s uncle, Joseph Mallord William Marshall, his mother’s elder brother, after whom he was named, was then living at Sunningwell, it is probable that these drawings were the result of a summer holiday spent with his relative.
