When I first saw Turner's name on the list of artists to research, I thought of his swirls of mist and weather and wondered how much he would have to offer me in the way of drawings indicating perspective. Not a problem.
What goes before and what lies behind seems very clear in most of the images I looked at. (There must be some somewhere that are muddled, but he sure started out early with very clearly defined scenes.) I like the range in scale of these images from the vastness in Lord Egrement greeting his dogs to the intimate scale and long enfilade of the Petworth interior. I like the simple outlines of the battlements, the precision of the village street, the trees in the foreground that lead one's eyes to the village, the brief screen of trees and deer in another foreground that demonstrate that the other trees are far away.
I suppose the interior of Petworth doesn't quite add up the way the village street scene does, but I don't care.
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