A beautifully produced, pocket-sized near-facsimile edition of
J.M.W. Turner's illuminating 'Wilson' sketchbook. Turner's
sketchbooks were private things which he kept to himself. They
might live for some time in his coat pockets or travel bags, to be
pulled out as need arose. In the studio, they served as memory
banks for future work. Of the nearly three hundred sketchbooks in
Turner's house at the time of his death and now in the care of the
Clore Gallery, the little book here reproduced is one of the most
delightful and fascinating. It marks an important stage in the
development of Turner's practice as a draughtsman and was in use
when he was only twenty-one years old. It is a working notebook in
which the pressing demands of an increasingly fertile imagination
are given expression as it forges a new language for itself: a
language that was radically to affect the history of both
water-colour and oil painting in the romantic period and long
afterwards. Originally marked with 'Copies of Wilson' on the
cover, this charming little book is a testimony to the phase of
student hood in Turner's development, Richard Wilson being the
supreme exponent of landscape painting in the eighteenth-century in
Britain. For Turner, whose lifelong ambition was to show the world
that landscape paintings could be a vehicle for the noblest and
most ideas, Wilson was, as this book shows, his hero and chief
model. This edition of the sketchbook reproduces all these
beautiful drawings and watercolours in facsimile, with an
illustrated introduction by Turner expert Andrew Wilton discussing
their background and impact.
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