[Gutenberg 64312] • Turner's Sketches and Drawings

Excerpt from Turner's Sketches and Drawings

The nature of our subject-matter - The difference between sketches and finished works - The character of our subject-matter, as embryonic forms of artistic expression, prescribes the method of study we must adopt Our method is broadly chronological - But to follow Turner's work year by year in detail would carry us beyond the limits of our present under taking - 1 have, therefore, broken up Turner's career into eight stages or phases of development.

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