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Catalog of Pictures, 1910, 1929 [page 29]
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in graphite: 29
heading in green ink: Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbour
Students of Turner will immediately recognize that this picture is contemporaneous with the famous Calais Pier in the National Gallery, and dates, therefore, from the first years of the nineteenth century..... His work has a dramatic force and his pigment has a richness and variety of substance which is unattainable in oil except when accompanied with considerable force of tone. By adopting this force of tone, Turner was able to get a strength and contrast of pictorial