著名艺术家J。M。W。特纳(1775-1851)把他的素描本保密。他旅行时经常用软装订的“卷”写生本;他可以很容易地把它们放在口袋里。伦敦泰特美术馆保存了一些作品,其中包括一些他最神奇、最具个人色彩的水彩画和素描。卢塞恩写生本中的图像捕捉到了美丽的里吉山,一位山水画家一遍又一遍地回归;它们和19世纪40年代的作品一样清新,封面上的水彩和空白封面上的污渍使艺术家栩栩如生。这些素描是在特纳1842年的著名画作《蓝色的里吉》(The Blue Rigi)和《日出》(Sunrise)之后绘制的,在描绘瑞士阿尔卑斯山千变万化的情绪时,这些素描展现了他娴熟的手笔,通过雨雨雨、穿过云层的阳光和穿过蓝色山峰的彩虹,令人着迷地描绘了瑞士阿尔卑斯山。特纳专家大卫·布莱尼·布朗(David Blayney Brown)的一篇图文并茂的介绍将这些草图置于上下文中。
Renowned artist J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) kept his sketchbooks private. He often used soft-bound “roll” sketchbooks when traveling; he could carry them easily in his pockets. A number survive at Tate in London, and they contain some of his most magical and intensely personal watercolors and sketches. The images in the Lucerne sketchbook capture the beautiful Rigi mountain, a landscape Turner returned to again and again; they are as fresh as when they were made in the 1840s—splashes of watercolor on the cover and smudges on blank facing pages bring the working artist to life. These sketches were made after Turner’s famous 1842 painting The Blue Rigi, Sunrise, and they reveal his masterful hand as he portrays the ever-changing moods of the Swiss Alps, tantalizingly depicted through rainy showers, sunbeams filtering through clouds, and rainbows across the blue mountain peaks. An illustrated introduction by Turner expert David Blayney Brown sets the sketches in context.
以下为对购买帮助不大的评价