CONCLUSION.

There can be no doubt that the money spent by Mr. Walter Fawkes upon Turner’s drawings and paintings was well expended. Regarded merely as an investment, it was extremely profitable. The drawing of Mont Blanc, from the Val d’Aosta (24), for which Mr. Fawkes paid fifty guineas, was sold for a thousand guineas in 1890; that of Windermere (88), which cost twenty-five guineas, was sold at the same time for twelve hundred guineas: and the auction price of Turner’s work has doubled, and sometimes trebled, since 1890. Roughly speaking, Mr. Fawkes spent about three thousand pounds on the collection, and its market price to-day is certainly not less than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds.

But the real value of such a collection cannot be estimated in terms of pounds, shillings and pence. The influence exerted by these lovely records of Farnley Hall and the neighbouring country upon Mr. Fawkes’s family and descendants has been more precious than gold. They have dignified and hallowed the ancestral home and lands, refined and educated the taste of all who have been privileged to live among them, and they have made the name of Walter Fawkes for ever memorable in the annals of British Art.

ALEXANDER J. FINBERG.

CONTENTS.

ARTICLES.
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Turner’s personal relations with Mr. W. Fawkes[1]
Turner’s relations with Mr. H. Fawkes[17]
The Farnley Hall Collection[18]
Conclusion[28]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PLATE[I.][ BONNEVILLE, SAVOY.]
PLATE[II.][ THE VALLEY OF THE WHARFE. FROM CALEY PARK.]
PLATE[III.][ THE VALLEY OF CHAMOUNIX.]
PLATE[IV.][ SCARBOROUGH TOWN AND CASTLE: MORNING. BOYS COLLECTING CRABS.]
PLATE[V.][ INTERIOR OF ST. PETER’S, ROME.]
PLATE[VI.][ THE STRID, BOLTON WOODS.]
PLATE[VII.][ THE PASSAGE OF MONT CENIS.]
PLATE[VIII.][ A FIRST-RATER TAKING IN STORES.]
PLATE[IX.][ THE GREAT FALL OF THE REICHENBACH; IN THE VALLEY OF HASLE, SWITZERLAND.]
PLATE[X.][ CONISTON LAKE AND OLD MAN.]
PLATE[XI.][ THE BANKS OF THE WASHBURNE.]
PLATE[XII.][ THE LAKE OF BRIENZ: MOONLIGHT.]
PLATE[XIII.][ BOLTON ABBEY, FROM THE SOUTH.]
PLATE[XIV.][ THE COLOSSEUM, ROME.]
PLATE[XV.][ HIRZENACH.]
PLATE[XVI.][ UPPER FALLS OF THE REICHENBACH: RAINBOW.]
PLATE[XVII.][ THE WASHBURNE, WITH LEATHLEY CHURCH.]
PLATE[XVIII.][ MAYENCE AND KASTEL.]
PLATE[XIX.][ THE VALLEY OF THE WASHBURNE, AND LINDLEY BRIDGE.]
PLATE[XX.][ THE RIALTO, VENICE.]
PLATE[XXI.][ SOONECK, WITH BACHARACH IN THE DISTANCE.]
PLATE[XXII.][ OTLEY, FROM THE CHEVIN.]
PLATE[XXIII.][ JOHANNISBERG.]
PLATE[XXIV.][ LINDLEY BRIDGE AND HALL.]
PLATE[XXV.][ ABBEY OF BINGEN, LOOKING TOWARDS LAKE.]
PLATE[XXVI.][ NORHAM CASTLE.]
PLATE[XXVII.][ THE CARRIAGE DRIVE, FARNLEY.]
PLATE[XXVIII.][FISH MARKET ON THE ENGLISH COAST.]
PLATE[XXIX.][ FROM RHEINFELS, LOOKING OVER ST. GOAR TO KATZ.]
PLATE[XXX.][ LAKE TINY, FARNLEY, WITH ALMIAS CLIFF IN DISTANCE.]

The Editor desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to Mr. F. H. Fawkes, the present owner of Farnley Hall, who has kindly placed at his disposal the beautiful drawings by Turner reproduced in this work.