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The life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A. (1879)

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894, Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 · London : Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday · leaf 114

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to us: all weknow is, that he received a succession of landscape im-pressions, which immediately transformed themselves inhis brain till they became dreams, and that these dreamseither bore some resemblance to the places, or did not,just as it happened. At the same time we are not toforget that… … First Continental Excursion. 95 yet in some strange, unaccountable way, was suggestedby the reality. So with the mountains. It is probablethat Turner never painted a portrait of any mountainwhatever: his way of treating Ben Cruachan (whollyarbitrary) is his way of treating Alp or Apennine; andyet…

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