[26] Only a portion of it, the picture.
[27] The only picture exhibited at the Academy by this artist. It was called A Landscape, with Hannibal in his March over the Alps, showing to his Army the Fertile Plains of Italy. As its year of exhibition was 1776, it would be interesting to learn where Turner saw this picture. Where is it now? Our information on the subject is derived from Redgrave’s “Century of Painters.”
[28] Thornbury, p. 236.
[29] He became Professor of Perspective to the Royal Academy in this year.
[30] Turner seems to have paid a visit to the Continent in 1804, as Mr. Thornbury refers to some powerful water-colour Swiss scenes of 1804 at Farnley, p. 240.
[31] There is no record of a visit by Turner to the Isle of Man.
[32] Wordsworth’s “Elegiac Stanzas,” suggested by a picture of ‘Peele Castle in a storm,’ painted by Sir George Beaumont.
[33] “Past Celebrities,” by Cyrus Redding, vol. i.
[34] Thornbury, p. 152.
[35] See Wornum, “Turner Gallery,” p. xv., for a Catalogue of Turner’s Gallery in 1809.