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heading in green ink: Mortlake Terrace - (Early Morning.)

The photogravure plate, while it can convey no adequate idea of the luminous tone, the lightness of touch, and the cool yet glowing colour of the original painting, at least serves to show the general disposition of the masses, and the arrangement of the light and shade. At it will be seen, there remains a general resemblance to the works of Turner's early manner, the various parts of the design being still linked together by the long shadows which sweep over the lawn on to the stems of the trees by the river, just as Turner might have employed them fifteen or twenty years earlier. The long shadows are arranged indeed in Turner's earlier style, but their tone is no longer dark and full, but comparatively pale and transparent. The artist in his earlier style could get light only by contrast with strong shadow; now he is attempting to dispense

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