Turner's Golden Visions

Plate I. Frontispiece Norham Castle—Sunrise ( about 1885) Tate Gallery
'Turner has some golden visions, glorious and beautiful. They are only visions, but still, they are art, and one could live and die with such pictures.'—John Constable on the 1828 Royal Academy Exhibition.
In writing on Turner one must necessarily make levies on the works of other authors. I give hearty acknowledgment to Mr. A. J. Finberg's Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest (printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office), which he himself has used with skill and accomplishment in his Turner's Sketches and Drawings (Methuen & Co.). Among the other books consulted and quoted from are Turner , by Sir Walter Armstrong (Agnew & Sons); Turner , by W. L. Wyllie, A.R.A. (G. Bell & Sons); The Turner Drawings , by E. T. Cook (Pall Mall Press); The Engraved Work of Turner , and Turner's 'Liber Studiorum' , by W. G. Rawlinson; the delightful Extra Numbers of The Studio on Turner, and the excellent little book by the late Cosmo Monkhouse. Ruskin, of course, is frequently referred to and quoted, also the inaccurate but indispensable Thornbury, whose Life of Turner all succeeding writers on Turner have borrowed from and upbraided.
C.L.H.
PART ONE
A MEMORY: TELLS OF A BOY WHO LOVED TURNER'S
'VIEW OF ORVIETO'
PART TWO (1775-1803)
FROM 'FOLLY BRIDGE' TO 'CALAIS PIER'
PART THREE (1804-1810)
FROM 'THE SHIPWRECK' TO AN EARLY GOLDEN VISION