Athenaeum, May 1838

Mr Turner is in all his force this year, as usual - showering upon his canvas splendid masses of architecture, far distant backgrounds... and presenting these objects through such a medium of yellow, scarlet and orange, and azure-blue, as only lives in his own fancy and the toleration of his admirers. It is grievous to us to think of talent, so mighty and poetical, running riot into such frenzies; the more grievous, as we fear, it is now past recall ( Finberg, The Life of J. M. W. Turner, p. 370)

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