"Norham Castle", from the photographed edition of the "Liber Studiorum", by J. M. W. Turner, 1864. '...a photograph from any work of which variety of colour is a prominent characteristic must be full of relative untruthfulness and can scarcely be other than inharmonious. Hence, photographs from the oil pictures and water-colour drawings of to the last degree the other hand, photographs from rare proof engravings after, or monochrome drawings by, Turner, in which (as through the medium of photographs) colour does not interfere with th
"Norham Castle", from the photographed edition of the "Liber Studiorum", by J. M. W. Turner, 1864. '...a photograph from any work of which variety of colour is a prominent characteristic must be full of relative untruthfulness and can scarcely be other than inharmonious. Hence, photographs from the oil pictures and water-colour drawings of to the last degree the other hand, photographs from rare proof engravings after, or monochrome drawings by, Turner, in which (as through the medium of photographs) colour does not interfere with the scale of gradation, are entirely this reason photographs from Turner's "Liber Studiorum" - a collection which has only appeared in the form of sepia drawings or engravings thereof - possess, so to speak, a genuine documentary did not consider that his task was completed when he placed his drawings in the hands of the engravers. On the contrary, he bestowed unremitted attention on the engraver's progress, frequently altering, correcting, and making photographs from the original drawings, taken by Mr. Thurston published by Messrs. Cundall and Downes, are by far the more estimable'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.
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