Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 339
ess the exact pur-pose be understood, it may be as unintelligible as a pieceof shorthand writing. For instance, in the corner of asheet of sketches made at sea, among those of Turner, atthe National Gallery, occurs this one, Fig. 19. I suppose 290 PEBFECTNESS IN SKETCHING. most persons would not… … o Fig. 19. myself watched such sunrise, occasionally, I perceive thissketch to mean as follows :— (Half circle at the top.) When the sun was only halfout of the sea, the horizon was sharply traced across itsdisk, and red streaks of vapor crossed the lower part of it. PERFECTNESS IN SKETCHING. 291…
Art · Aesthetics
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