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J.M.W. Turner: The 'Skies' Sketchbook (Hardcover)
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J.M.W. Turner: The 'Skies' Sketchbook (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 820
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The 'Skies' Sketchbook presents a stunning and dramatic selection
of sky studies from one of Britain's most influential and important
artists. While weather and climate were longstanding interests for
J.M.W. Turner, the dramatic consequences of the eruption of Mount
Tambora in 1815, darkening skies and reddening sunsets around the
world and turning 1816 into a 'year without a summer' surely caught
his attention. Since the pages of this sketchbook are watermarked
1814, its more intensely-coloured studies may document these
effects which lasted for more than a year. Most of the skies in the
book were presumably observed in England, but a few may have been
seen in Italy when Turner visited in 1819. Notably varied cloudy
skies also appear in Turner's paintings at this period, especially
in those arising from his journey to Germany and the Netherlands in
1817. This glorious edition of the sketchbook reproduces all these
beautiful drawings in near-facsimile, with an illustrated
introduction by Turner expert David Blayney Brown, exploring their
background and impact.
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