Catalogue of
Five magnificent pictures
by JMW Turner RA
The property of Benjamin Godfrey Windus Esq
of Tottenham
which have for many Years excited the admiration of the numerous
Visitors who have been so liberally admitted to View Mr WINDUS’s Collection:
These five superlative Works of the Great Master, TURNER,
will be Sold with the valuable Copyright,
being admirably adapted for Engraving.
The Pictures are in the finest state.
Five magnificent pictures
by JMW Turner RA
The property of Benjamin Godfrey Windus Esq
of Tottenham
which have for many Years excited the admiration of the numerous
Visitors who have been so liberally admitted to View Mr WINDUS’s Collection:
These five superlative Works of the Great Master, TURNER,
will be Sold with the valuable Copyright,
being admirably adapted for Engraving.
The Pictures are in the finest state.
20 June 1853
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Venice - Evening: Going to the Ball - “Fallacies of Hope” MS exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1846 No 117 Morning: Returning from the Ball - S. Martino - “Fallacies of Hope” exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1846 No 162 Dawn of Christianity: Flight into Egypt “That star has risen” Rev T Gisborne’s Works in a Forest. exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1841 No 532 Glaucus and Scylla “Ovid’s Metamorphoses” - painted on panel. exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1841 No 542 The approach to Venice "The path lies o’er the sea" "The moon is up, and yet it is not night: The sun as yet disputes the day with her" Byron Described by Ruskin in Modern Painters Vol i as ‘One of the most beautiful bits of colour ever done by any man, by any means, at any time” |
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