Hardcover
1996 · New Haven
by Hill, David
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Hardcover. VG/VG. Tan cloth boards with black spine lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with black and white lettering. viii, 213 pp. Color and BW illustrations. "Two hundred years ago, J.M.W. Turner packed up two large leatherbound sketchbooks, pencils, and watercolours and left London for the north of England. When he returned from the tour that he regarded as one of the most important of his career, Turner had completed over two hundred sketches - works that later became the basis of more than fifty major paintings and watercolours. David Hill reconstructs in detail Turner's tour of 1797, which included (truncated)