Judy Egerton , At the Tate Gallery —12 ; —19 ; —1. Rodner, J. In good condition; lining became necessary in because of flaking paint. There may have been some discoloration of glazes and scumbles?
The puffs of smoke, and the hare in front of the engine, are now less distinct than in the engraving of but the engraving may have exaggerated the contrasts in the picture. In his lectures as Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy, first given in , he discussed the potential of parallel perspective, whose principles he had taught himself through studying Poussin and Claude.
The version of The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October [page ] [page ] exhibited at the British Institution in 9 depicts Westminster Bridge in dramatically foreshortened perspective, slanting across the right half of the picture.
Juliet and her Nurse fig. Even closer in date to Rain, Steam, and Speed — in a sense almost a rehearsal for it — is Bellinzona from the Road to Locarno fig. By , he could have been travelling on the GWR for six or seven years. He may or may not have been travelling to London on that line on a night of storm in June Her story is quoted, partially and sceptically, in almost every account of Rain, Steam, and Speed. It deserves fuller and fairer examination, if only because Ruskin was sufficiently convinced of its veracity to encourage Mrs Simon, whom he knew and trusted, to write down her recollection for him as fully as possible.
After that her companions dozed, while she watched the dawn of a bright day. Bellinzona from the Road to Locarno Switzerland , These facts are clear enough. Travel by train did not abolish hazards and delays, but it diminished them.
