Turner's Sketches and Drawings

by A. J. Finberg

PLATE LXXI

BEMERSIDE TOWER

PENCIL. ABOUT 1831

PLATE LXXII

BEMERSIDE TOWER

ENGRAVING PUBLISHED IN SCOTT’S “POETICAL WORKS” (CADELL), 1834

scheme is actually more subdued than the ‘Ulysses,’ but the whole effect is more vaporous and the figures are less distinct. So far as I am able to judge, this is the chief differentia of Turner’s later manner, and of all Impressionistic work on its formal side. As a second characteristic we may add the fact that it deals with a scene of contemporary life, something that Turner had actually seen with his eyes, not something that he had read about and imagined, as in the ‘Ulysses.’