 It is a sunset on the Atlantic after prolonged storm; but the storm is partially lulled, and the torn and streaming rain-clouds are moving in scarlet lines to lose themselves in the hollow of the night. The whole surface of sea included in the picture...  Temple Bar - Page 51edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1847 - 584 pages
...ever painted by man, is that of the Slave Ship, the chief Academy picture of the Exhibition of 1840. It is a sunset on the Atlantic, after prolonged storm...the whole ocean, like the lifting of its bosom by deep drawn breath after the torture of the storm. Between these two ridges the fire of the sunset falls... | |
 | 1847 - 574 pages
...the Exhibition of 1849v^'ltijftf& i the Atlantic, after prolonged storm ; but the sform is^aiffi^Jly lulled, and the torn and streaming rain-clouds are...night. The whole surface of sea included in the picture j£ divided into two ridges of enormous rellJ'iJOT h%h, nor local, hut a low, broad heaving of the... | |
 | John Timbs - Art - 1860 - 424 pages
...noblest, certainly, ever painted by man, is that of the Slaveship. It is a sunset on the Adriatic, after prolonged storm ; but the storm is partially lulled, and the torn and streaming rain clouds are moving in scarlet lines to lose themselves in the hollow of the night. The whole surface... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1862 - 446 pages
...painted by man, is that of the ' Slave Ship,' the chief Academy picture of the Exhibition of 1840. It is a sunset on the Atlantic, after prolonged storm...storm is partially lulled, and the torn and streaming rain clouds are moving in scarlet lines to lose themselves in the hollow of the night. The wh*ole surface... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1862 - 472 pages
...painted by man, is that of the ' Slave Ship,' the chief Academy picture of the Exhibition of 1840. It is a sunset on the Atlantic, after prolonged storm...storm is partially lulled, and the torn and streaming rain clouds are moving in scarlet lines to lose themselves in the hollow of the night.' The whole surface... | |
 | Art - Art - 1868 - 220 pages
...ever painted by man, is that of the Slave Ship, the chief Academy picture of the Exhibition of 1840. It is a sunset on the Atlantic, after prolonged storm...the whole ocean, like the lifting of its bosom by a deep-drawn breath after the torture of the storm. Between these two ridges, the fire of the sunset... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 pages
...Again I italicize the passages to which I wish to call attention as demanding analysis and criticism. " It is a sunset on the Atlantic after prolonged storm...streaming rain-clouds are moving in scarlet lines to Jose themselves in the hollow of the night. The whole surface of the sea included in the picture is... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1873 - 500 pages
...painted by man, is that of the i681ii™ Slave Ship, the enief Academy picture of the Exhibition of 1840. It is a sunset on the Atlantic, after prolonged storm...torn and streaming rain-clouds are moving in scarlet Hues to lose themselves in the hollow of the night. The whole surface of sea included in the picture... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...has ever painted, and, if so, the noblest certainly ever painted by man, is that of tho Slave-Ship. It is a sunset on the Atlantic, after prolonged storm;...are moving in scarlet lines, to lose themselves in tho hollow of the night. The whole surface of sea included in the picture is divided into two ridges... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - Forest influences - 1875 - 294 pages
...coast. " Turner has attempted to represent the ocean, after such a storm, in the Slave Ship : — It is sunset on the Atlantic, after prolonged storm ; but the storm is partially lulled, and the torn and streamy rain -clouds are moving in scarlet lines to lose themselves in the hollow of the night. The... | |
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