The harbours of England . ntrast ofher black and glistering side with those sails,and with the sea. Examine the waywardand delicate play of the dancing waves alongher flank, and between her and the brig inballast, plunging slowly before the wind; Ihave not often seen anything so perfect infancy, or in execution of engraving. The heaving and black buoy in the nearsea is one of Turners echoes, repeating,with slight change, the head of the sloopwith its flash of lustre. The chief aim ofthis buoy is, however, to give comparativelightness to the shadowed part of the sea, 88 THE HARBOURS OF ENGLAND
The harbours of England . ntrast ofher black and glistering side with those sails,and with the sea. Examine the waywardand delicate play of the dancing waves alongher flank, and between her and the brig inballast, plunging slowly before the wind; Ihave not often seen anything so perfect infancy, or in execution of engraving. The heaving and black buoy in the nearsea is one of Turners echoes, repeating,with slight change, the head of the sloopwith its flash of lustre. The chief aim ofthis buoy is, however, to give comparativelightness to the shadowed part of the sea, 88 THE HARBOURS OF ENGLAND which is, indeed, somewhat overcharged indarkness, and would have been felt to be so,but for this contrasting mass. Hide it withthe hand, and this will be immediately is only one other of Turners workswhich, in its way, can be matched with thisdrawing, namely, the Mouth of the Humberin the River Scenery. The latter is, on thewhole, the finer picture; but this by muchthe more interesting in the shipping. MARGATE. s\ ! VI.—MARGATE This plate is not, at first sight, one of themost striking of the series; but it is verybeautiful, and highly characteristic of Turner.*First, in its choice of subjects : for it seemsvery notably capricious in a painter eminentlycapable of rendering scenes of sublimity andmystery, to devote himself to the delineationof one of the most prosaic of English water-ing-places — not once or twice, but in aseries of elaborate drawings, of which thisis the fourth. The first appeared in theSouthern Coast series, and was followed byan elaborate drawing on a large scale, witha beautiful sunrise; then came another care-ful and very beautiful drawing in the Englandand Wales series ; and finally this, which is * It was left unfinished at his death, and I would notallow it to be touched afterwards, desiring that the seriesshould remain as far as possible in an authentic state. 92 THE HARBOURS OF ENGLAND a sort of poetical abstract of the first. Now,if we
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