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I HAVE been waiting since the appearance of a report of Dr. Liebreich's lecture in NATURE of March 21 expecting that an animated discussion would be provoked, affording me an opportunity of slipping in obscurely as a minor combatant, the subject being one on which I am but very indifferently qualified to speak, although thirteen years ago I did incidentally suggest an explanation of the peculiarities of Turner's later pictures which, simple as it is, still appears to me sufficient. On page 67 of “Through Norway with a Knapsack,” published in 1859, speaking of some of the peculiar midnight sunset effects of the North, I said that “Turner, like an eagle, has dared to face the sun in his full glare, and to place him in the middle of his pictures, showing us how we see a landscape with sun-dazzled eyes, when everything is melted into a luminous chaos, and all the details blotted out with misty brightness.”
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WILLIAMS, W. Turner's Vision. Nature 5, 500 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005500a0
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