Yes, a quiet year this seems to have been for Turner, marked by the repose of the 'Abingdon' and the 'Windsor,' the stately pictures of 'Lowther Castle' at noon and evening, 'Petworth House, Dewy Morning,' and that golden dream called 'A Mountain Stream,' to which probably he gave no title, a little hard, a little tight, but an augury of the subtle effects of light and vapour that were to float from his brush when the chief had advanced to a complete realisation of his vision of essential beauty.
[PART FOUR]
1811-1820
FROM A JOURNEY TO DEVONSHIRE TO HIS RETURN FROM ITALY
[CHAPTER XVIII]
1811: AGED THIRTY-SIX