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Romantic Landscape
English 233, Fall 2001, Alan Liu
Notes for Class 9 (back
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Turner and Artistic Tradition
Turner and Claude
Turner and Gainsborough
Turner and Canaletto
Turner and Other
Old Masters
Turner and Dutch
Marine Painting
Turner and the
Picturesque (and Topographical Art)
Turner and the
Sublime
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Turner's Oil Painting
(1) Toward the Release of the Medium
(2) Is This What the Sea Looks Like?
- Life-Boat
and Manby Apparatus Going Off to a Stranded Vessel Making
Signal (Blue Lights) of Distress
(1831) 91.4 x 122 cm, Victoria and Albert Museum
- Seascape
with Storm Coming On
(c. 1840) oil on canvas, 91.4 x 121.6 cm, Tate Gallery
- Snow
Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps
(1812 exh.) oil on canvas, 146 x 237.5 cm, Tate Gallery
- Snowstorm,
Mont Cenis
(1820) 11 1/2 x 15 3/4", Birmingham City Museum &
Art Gallery
- Slavers
Throwing Overboard the Dead and DyingTyphoon Coming
On
(1840) oil on canvas, 35 3/4 x 48", Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston
(3) The Apocalypse of Vision
- Dido
Building Carthage, or The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire
(1815 exh.) oil, 61.25 x 91.25", National Gallery,
London
- Vesuvius
in Eruption
(1817) watercolor, 11 x 15 1/2", Mellon Coll.
- Ulysses
Deriding Polyphemus
(1829) oil, 52 1/4 x 80 1/2", National Gallery, London
- Regulus
(1828 [reworked 1837]) oil on canvas, 35 3/4" x 48
3/4", Tate Gallery
- Peace
- Burial at Sea
(1841) (exh. 1842) oil on canvas, 87 x 86.7 cm, Tate Gallery
- Rain,
Steam, and SpeedThe Great Western Railway
(1844 exh.) oil on canvas, 35 3/4 x 48", National Gallery,
London
(4) The Vision of Nothing
(P. B. Shelley, "Mont
Blanc")
- The
Evening Star
(c. 1830?) oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 48 1/4", National
Gallery, London
- Frosty
Morning
(1813 exh.) oil on canvas, 113.7 x 174.6 cm, Tate Gallery
- Norham
Castle, Sunrise
(c. 1835-1840) Clore Gallery, London
- Landscape
with Water
(c. 1840-1845) 121.9 x 182.2 cm, Tate Gallery
- Sunrise,
with a Boat between Headlands
(c. 1840-1845) oil on canvas, 91.4 x 121.9 cm, Tate Gallery
(5) Apocalypse as the Allegory of
Vision
- Petworth
Park - Tillingon Church in Distance
(c. 1828) oil on canvas, 60 x 145.7 cm, Tate Gallery
- A
Vaulted Hall
(c. 1835) Tate Gallery
- Interior
at Petworth
(c. 1837) oil on canvas, 91 x 122 cm, Tate Gallery
- Shade
and Darkness - The Evening of the Deluge
(1843) oil on canvas, 78.7 x 78.1 cm, Tate Gallery
- Light
and Colour (Goethe's Theory) the Morning after the Deluge
(1843 exh.) oil on canvas, 78.7 x 78.7 cm, Tate Gallery
- The
Sun of Venice Going to Sea
(1843 exh.) oil on canvas, 61.6 x 92.1 cm, Tate Gallery
- Sunrise,
with Sea Monsters
(c. 1845) oil on canvas, 91.4 x 121.9 cm, Tate Gallery
- The
Angel Standing in the Sun
(1846 exh.) oil on canvas, 78.7 x 78.7 cm, Tate Gallery
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Supplementary Readings
Turner
- Ruskin
on Turner (overview, plus excerpts from Ruskin's
Modern Painters) (Art Bin)
- William Hardy, The History and Techniques of
the Great Masters: Turner (Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell,
1988)
- Diana Hirsch, et al., The World of Turner, 1775-1851
(New York: Time-Life, 1969)
Watercolors
- Jane Bayard, Works of Splendor and Imagination:
The Exhibition Watercolor, 1770-1870 (New Haven: Yale
Center for British Art, 1981)
- Lindsay Stainton, British Landscape Watercolours,
1600-1860 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985)
General
- Harold Osborne, ed., The Oxford Companion to
Art (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1970) [very useful for definitions
of technical terms in paintinge.g., "scumble,"
"glaze," "underpainting," "watercolor,"
"bodycolor," "gouache," "perspective,"
etc.
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