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- TURNER'S GOLDEN VISIONS
- C. LEWIS HIND
- WITH FIFTY OF THE PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS OF TURNER REPRODUCED IN COLOUR
- NOTE
- PART ONE
- A MEMORY: TELLS OF A BOY WHO LOVED TURNER'S 'VIEW OF ORVIETO'
- THE BOY AND GOLDEN ORVIETO
- THE BOY WONDERS AT TURNER'S ART LIFE
- THE BOY WONDERS AT TURNER THE DUMB POET
- THE BOY, HAVING BECOME A MAN, WONDERS AT THE 'INVENTORY' OF THE TURNER BEQUEST DRAWINGS
- PART TWO
- FROM 'FOLLY BRIDGE' TO 'CALAIS PIER'
- BIRTHPLACE AND PARENTS
- HE EXHIBITS AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY AND IS DESCRIBED AS A LIGHT-HEARTED, MERRY CREATURE
- THE DRAWINGS OF 'THE INGENIUS MR. TURNER' ARE STATED BY A NEWSPAPER OF THE DAY TO BE 'TINCTURED WITH TRUTH AND FIDELITY'
- HIS FIRST OIL PICTURES AND EXTRACTS FROM HIS SKETCH-BOOKS
- HE EXHIBITS GRANDILOQUENT 'JASON' AND A SIMPLE 'VIEW ON CLAPHAM COMMON'
- THE YEAR OF 'CALAIS PIER'
- PART THREE
- FROM 'THE SHIPWRECK' TO AN EARLY GOLDEN VISION
- HE STUDIES AN ECLIPSE AND PAINTS THE SUNSET
- HE PAINTS 'THE SHIPWRECK' FOR FAME, AND BEGINS A SERIES OF 'DELIGHT STUDIES' FOR LOVE
- THE CHAOS OF THE 'HESPERIDES' AND THE PEACE OF 'ABINGDON'
- HE BEGINS THE 'LIBER STUDIORUM' AND EXHIBITS 'THE SUN RISING THROUGH VAPOUR'
- HE WRITES P.P. AFTER HIS NAME AND PAINTS IN A GARDEN AT HAMMERSMITH
- HE EXHIBITS THE GLOWING 'RIVER SCENE WITH CATTLE,' AND REFUSES TO SELL 'BLIGH SAND'
- A QUIET YEAR AND AN EARLY GOLDEN VISION
- PART FOUR
- FROM A JOURNEY TO DEVONSHIRE TO HIS RETURN FROM ITALY
- 'APOLLO KILLING THE PYTHON' AND A PICNIC
- HE EXHIBITS 'HANNIBAL CROSSING THE ALPS,' SUGGESTED BY A SNOWSTORM HE HAD SEEN AT FARNLEY
- HOAR FROST AT SUNRISE THAT HAS VANISHED FROM 'A FROSTY MORNING'
- HE PAINTS MORE CLASSICAL PICTURES, TURNS AUTHOR, AND IS HAPPY AT SANDYCOMBE
- 'A WONDERFUL YEAR' AND A TURNERIAN LOVE-LETTER
- SKIES! SKIES! SKIES!
- HE SELLS FIFTY WATER-COLOURS TO MR. FAWKES OF FARNLEY HALL
- 'THE ABBOTSFORD TURNERS,' AND AN AUCTION PRICE OF A TURNER WATER-COLOUR
- TURNER'S FIRST VISIT TO ITALY, AND AN EXHIBITION IN GROSVENOR PLACE
- RETURN FROM ITALY: HE BEGINS TO SIGHT HIS MYSTICAL VISIONS
- PART FIVE
- FROM 'THE BAY OF BAIÆ TO 'ULYSSES DERIDING POLYPHEMUS'
- HE THROWS OFF ANOTHER 'NORHAM CASTLE' AND PREPARES TO STARTLE THE WORLD WITH 'THE BAY OF BAIÆ'
- 'THE BAY OF BAIÆ': A CRITIC IS CRITICAL, AND A PAINTER IS ENTHUSIASTIC
- A GLANCE AT SOME OF 'THE RIVERS OF ENGLAND' AND 'HARBOURS OF ENGLAND' WATER-COLOURS
- A SOMEWHAT BARREN YEAR COMMENTED ON IN A BITTER LAMENT BY RUSKIN
- ANOTHER UNIMPORTANT YEAR, IN WHICH HE LEAVES TWICKENHAM
- HE PAINTS THE SEA IN THE OPEN, AND SOME THAMES-SIDE PICTURES
- THE YEAR WHEN CONSTABLE DESCRIBED TURNER'S VISIONS AS 'GOLDEN, GLORIOUS, AND BEAUTIFUL'
- THE YEAR OF 'ULYSSES DERIDING POLYPHEMUS'
- PART SIX
- FROM THE 'INTERIOR AT PETWORTH' TO THE PERIOD OF THE 'UNFINISHED' OILS
- HE PAINTS THE 'INTERIOR AT PETWORTH' AND MOURNS THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, AND OF SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE
- HE TURNS HIS 'MAGIC LIMELIGHT' ON 'CALIGULA'S PALACE AND BRIDGE'; VISITS SIR WALTER SCOTT, AND MAKES HIS WILL
- HE PAINTS 'CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE' AND IS JOCULAR ON VARNISHING DAY
- HE PAINTS HIS FIRST 'VENICE' PICTURE AND RE-PURCHASES SOME OF HIS OWN DRAWINGS AT AUCTION
- SOME OLD STORIES AND SOME AGELESS COLOUR STUDIES
- PART SEVEN
- FROM A CONSIDERATION OF THE 'UNFINISHED OILS TO' RAIN, STEAM AND SPEED' AND THE LAST SKETCH-BOOKS
- SOME REMARKS ON THE 'UNFINISHED' OILS, AND BLACKWOOD'S ATTACK ON HIS 'VENICE' PICTURE OF THIS YEAR
- THE RECEPTION OF 'JULIET AND HER NURSE' PROCLAIMS THAT TURNER IS BEGINNING TO LOSE FAVOUR WITH THE PUBLIC
- 'TROUBLES BEGIN TO GATHER ABOUT HIM. NOTHING WILL GO RIGHT'
- A 'NONSENSE PICTURE' OF 1838 WHICH IN 1878 FETCHED £5460 AT AUCTION
- 'THE FIGHTING TÉMÉRAIRE,' AND A SEA-PIECE ON A VISITING-CARD
- A CONTRAST BETWEEN THE TERRIFIC 'SLAVE SHIP' AND THE MILD 'NEW MOON'
- HOW TURNER DID IT? HE 'GRASPED THE HANDLE AND PLUNGED THE WHOLE DRAWING INTO A PAIL OF WATER'
- 'THE SNOWSTORM' AND SOME 'FAULTLESS' WATER-COLOURS
- VISIONS OF VENICE AND THE FIRST VOLUME OF 'MODERN PAINTERS'
- HE EXHIBITS 'RAIN, STEAM AND SPEED,' AND TWICE TRIES TO CROSS THE ALPS ON FOOT
- PICTURES OF WHALERS, AND AN ENTRY ON THE LAST PAGE OF HIS LAST SKETCH-BOOK
- PART EIGHT
- THE YEARS OF DECLINE—AND THE END
- THE BEGINNING OF TURNER'S DECLINE, AND A 'GREY, DIM DRAWING'
- HE DISAPPEARS FROM HIS OLD HAUNTS, AND IS INTERESTED IN OPTICS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
- HIS LAST FOUR PICTURES PAINTED IN HIDING AT CHELSEA
- THE MYSTERY OF THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE REVEALED TO HIS FRIENDS: AND HIS DEATH
- PART NINE
- AFTER TURNER'S DEATH TO THE OPENING OF THE TURNER GALLERY IN 1910
- VICISSITUDES OF THE TURNER BEQUEST
- 1906: EXHIBITION OF THE 'UNFINISHED' TURNERS AT THE TATE GALLERY
- 1908: FIFTY-TWO MORE 'UNEXHIBITED' TURNERS SHOWN AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY
- 1910: THE NEW 'TURNER GALLERY' AT MILLBANK
- TURNER AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY—AND CLAUDE. A LAST LOOK
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