Liber Fluviorum: Or River Scenery of France

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H. G. Bohn, 1853 - France - 336 pages
Turner's illustrations and Ritchie's text first appeared in slightly different form in 1833, 1834, & 1835 in three volumes that came to be known as Turner's Annual Tours; the plates were reissued in 1837 as Rivers of France; and the first edition of Liber Fluviorum. was published in 1853. In any of these guises the lovely plates confirm Gordon Ray's verdict that "Turner achieved his best landscapes on steel in this series." [See Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England., 16.].

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Page xliii - Fire, exhibited at the Royal Academy in the following May, witnessed the force with which the scene was impressed upon him. In like manner, the Burning of the Houses of Parliament forty years afterwards was an event that could not escape the pencil of Turner. He repaired to the spot to make sketches of the fire at different points, and produced two pictures, one for the Academy, and another for the British Institution. Here was a glowing subject for his palette.
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