TURNER'S
GOLDEN VISIONS
BY
C. LEWIS HIND
WITH FIFTY OF THE PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
OF TURNER REPRODUCED IN COLOUR
LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
67 LONG ACRE, W. C.
AND EDINBURGH
1907
'Turner has some golden visions, glorious andbeautiful. They are only visions, but still,they are art, and one could live and die withsuch pictures.'—John Constable on the 1828Royal Academy Exhibition.
NOTE
In writing on Turner one must necessarily make levies on theworks of other authors. I give hearty acknowledgment to Mr.A. J. Finberg's Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest(printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office), which he himself hasused with skill and accomplishment in his Turner's Sketches andDrawings (Methuen & Co.). Among the other books consultedand quoted from are Turner, by Sir Walter Armstrong (Agnew& Sons); Turner, by W. L. Wyllie, A.R.A. (G. Bell & Sons);The Turner Drawings, by E. T. Cook (Pall Mall Press); TheEngraved Work of Turner, and Turner's 'Liber Studiorum', byW. G. Rawlinson; the delightful Extra Numbers of The Studioon Turner, and the excellent little book by the late CosmoMonkhouse. Ruskin, of course, is frequently referred to andquoted, also the inaccurate but indispensable Thornbury, whoseLife of Turner all succeeding writers on Turner have borrowedfrom and upbraided.
C.L.H.
CONTENTS.
PART ONE
A MEMORY: TELLS OF A BOY WHO LOVED TURNER'S
'VIEW OF ORVIETO'
I. The Boy and golden Orvieto3
II. The Boy wonders at Turner's Art Life7
III. The Boy wonders at Turner the Dumb Poet11
IV. The Boy, having become a Man, wonders at the Inventory of theTurner Bequest Drawings17
PART TWO (1775-1803)
FROM 'FOLLY BRIDGE' TO 'CALAIS PIER'
V. 1775. Birthplace and Parents23
VI. 1790 (aged 15). He exhibits at the Royal Academy, and isdescribed as a light-hearted, merry creature27
VII. 1795 (aged 20). The Drawings of 'the ingenius Mr. Turner' arestated by a newspaper of the day to be 'tinctured with tr