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by Mr. Lupton:* that is what he saw when he had landed, and ran back directly to the pier to see what had become of the brig. The weather had got still worse, the fishwomen were being blown about in a distressful manner on the pier head, and some more fishing-boats were running in with all speed. Then there is the “Fort Rouge,” Calais: that is what he saw after he had been home to Dessein’s,¹ and dined, and went out again in the evening to walk on the sands, the tide being down. He had never seen such a waste of sands before, and it made an impression on him. The shrimp-girls were all scattered over them too, and moved about in white spots on the wild shore; and the storm had lulled a little, and there was a sunset-such a sunset!-and the bars of Fort Rouge seen against it, skeleton-wise. He did not paint that directly; thought over it-painted it a long while afterwards.

48. Then there is the vignette in the illustrations to Scott. That is what he saw as he was going home, meditatively; and the revolving lighthouse came blazing out upon him suddenly, and disturbed him. He did not like that so much; made a vignette of it, however, when he was asked to do a bit of Calais, twenty or thirty years afterwards, having already done all the rest.

Turner never told me all this, but any one may see it if he will compare the pictures. They might, possibly, not be impressions of a single day, but of two days or three; though, in all human probability, they were seen just as I have stated them;† but they are records of successive impressions, as plainly written as ever traveller’s diary. All of them pure veracities. Therefore immortal.

49. I could multiply these series almost indefinitely from the rest of his works. What is curious, some of them have

* The Plate was, however, never published.²

† And the more probably because Turner was never fond of staying long at any place, and was least of all likely to make a pause of two or three days at the beginning of his journey.

¹ [This very old-established inn at Calais figures in Sterne’s Sentimental Journey. See also Ruskin’s metrical “Tour” of 1835, Vol. II. p. 398, and Præterita, ii. ch. x. § 186.]

² [See note above, p. 378.]

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