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...important paintings are an early Turner, "Seapiece," lent by the Malden Public Library; the "Grand Landscape" of Gainsborough; John Crome's "The Mill," the only representative of this artist on display: a small canvas by John Sell Cotman, "Chateau in Normandy": and some water colors by John Ruskin, Thomas Girtin and William Blake. It is interesting to note that group of one Turner and two Raeburns are hung in the identical place in which they were when the museum opened...
...number of original drawings by masters of the old English water-color school are now on view at the Fogg Museum. The artists represented are: Samuel Prout, David Cox, Peter DeWint, Henry Edridge, Thomas Girtin, Paul Sanby and John Varley. These are all characteristic examples, and serve to show what were the artistic ideals, and the technical methods, which prevailed in the English School of the early part of the century now closing. While more or less conventional in both conception and treatment, these works are generally well composed and exhibit the skill in the use of pure water-color...