J. RUSKIN.

FOOTNOTES:

[23] It is meant, I believe, for "Salt Hill."

[24] I do not mean that you can approach Turner or Duerer in their
strength, that is to say, in their imagination or power of design.
But you may approach them, by perseverance, in truth of manner.

[25] The following are the most desirable plates:--

Grande Chartreuse. Little Devil's Bridge.
Aesacus and Hesperie. River Wye (_not_ Wye and Severn).
Cephalus and Procris. Holy Island.
Source of Arveron. Clyde.
Ben Arthur. Lauffenburg.
Watermill. Blair Athol.
Hindhead Hill. Alps from Grenoble.
Hedging and Ditching. Raglan. (Subject with quiet brook,
Dumblane Abbey. trees, and castle on the right.)
Morpeth.
Calais Pier.
Pembury Mill.

If you cannot get one of these, any of the others will be
serviceable, except only the twelve following, which are quite
useless:--

1. Scene in Italy, with goats on a walled road, and trees above.
2. Interior of church.
3. Scene with bridge, and trees above; figures on left, one playing
a pipe.
4. Scene with figure playing on tambourine.
5. Scene on Thames with high trees, and a square tower of a church
seen through them.
6. Fifth Plague of Egypt.
7. Tenth Plague of Egypt.
8. Rivaulx Abbey.
9. Wye and Severn.
10. Scene with castle in center, cows under trees on the left.
11. Martello Towers.
12. Calm.

It is very unlikely that you should meet with one of the original
etchings; if you should, it will be a drawing-master in itself
alone, for it is not only equivalent to a pen-and-ink drawing by
Turner, but to a very careful one; only observe, the Source of
Arveron, Raglan, and Dumblane were not etched by Turner; and the
etchings of those three are not good for separate study, though it
is deeply interesting to see how Turner, apparently provoked at the
failure of the beginnings in the Arveron and Raglan, took the plates
up himself, and either conquered or brought into use the bad etching
by his marvelous engraving. The Dumblane was, however, well etched
by Mr. Lupton, and beautifully engraved by him. The finest Turner
etching is of an aqueduct with a stork