DOI issue:
No. 5 (August, 1893)
DOI article:Hartley, Alfred: Sketching from nature
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17188#0195
Sketching from Nature
much seeming ease and deftness of touch, owes those delightful canvases which portray the sweet
probably more than we can fully realise to those and poetic side of Nature which Corot loved,
early and laborious studies of which he made so Of our own master landscapist—Turner—amaz-
many. As the eye became more able to perceive ing things are told. His industry was prodigious,
FROM A PENCIL SKETCH BY C. J. WATSON, R.P.E.
that which was noblest, so the hand became un- and his determination to get some record of what
consciously more and more cunning in the execu- he saw must have been backed up by an energy
tion of the increased demands made upon it; and which partook of the marvellous,
the result was a combined power able to give us Mr. Ruskin tells us that when he set himself to
much seeming ease and deftness of touch, owes those delightful canvases which portray the sweet
probably more than we can fully realise to those and poetic side of Nature which Corot loved,
early and laborious studies of which he made so Of our own master landscapist—Turner—amaz-
many. As the eye became more able to perceive ing things are told. His industry was prodigious,
FROM A PENCIL SKETCH BY C. J. WATSON, R.P.E.
that which was noblest, so the hand became un- and his determination to get some record of what
consciously more and more cunning in the execu- he saw must have been backed up by an energy
tion of the increased demands made upon it; and which partook of the marvellous,
the result was a combined power able to give us Mr. Ruskin tells us that when he set himself to