Ruskin wrote these pages to accompany twelve mezzotints after Turner’s drawings of English harbours, among them Dover, Ramsgate, Plymouth, Catwater and Sheerness. His introduction becomes an essay on how painters through the ages have drawn boats and the sea, scorning the dolphin-pushed vessels of Rubens and praising Turner’s truth to wind and water.
A lesser-known Ruskin that rewards lovers of Turner and of marine painting. Download the free EPUB.