Studio: international art (55.1912)

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ORIGINAL DRAWING FOR THE BOOK OF JOB
BY ROBERT T. ROSE

In our Winter Number, “Pen, Pencil, and
Chalk,” we reproduced a pen drawing by Mr. R. T.
Rose, of Edinburgh—The Holy City: Pilgrims
sighting Jerusalem—and we now have pleasure in
giving our readers two other examples of this
artist’s beautiful and expressive draughtsmanship
in the shape of drawings for the Book of Job.

The publication by The Studio of reproductions

of the most important of Turner’s water-colours in
the Farnley Hall collection, the first instalment of
which is now in the hands of subscribers, is attract-
ing widespread interest. When placing this re-
markable series of drawings at our disposal for the
purpose of this publication Mr. Fawkes very kindly
gave his assent to the reproduction of two of Turner’s
oil paintings from his collection, but for various
reasons it was deemed expedient not to include
these with the water-colours, and we are therefore
including one of them in this number. This
picture, Shoeburyness Fisherman hailing a Whit-
stable Hoy, was exhibited by Turner at the “one-
man show ” held in his studio in Queen Anne Street
in May 1809. Among the other works exhibited
on this occasion were no fewer than six oil paint-
ings which are now in the National Gallery, and also
the justly famous Trout-fishing in the Dee, Corwen
Bridge and Cottage. Mr. Ruskin, who was a great
admirer of the Farnley Hall picture, frequently
speaks of it as The Red Cap and The Pilot Boat.
The foreground figure is, however, not a pilot, but
a fisherman. He is hailing the hoy in the middle
distance, to intercept it on its way to London. His
object is evidently to buy some or all of the fish
that was being taken to Billingsgate to be disposed
of. This was no doubt one of the usual local