CATALOGUE.
* The letters at the top of the plates, and printed in the margin of the Catalogue, have the following mean
ings :- P., pastral; E P, elegant pastoral ; M. and M. S., mountainous; M., marine; H., historical;
A., architectural.
The names in the Catalogue anre taken from the plates so far as they appear upon them. For the plates which
bear no name the commonly accepted name is given in parentheses
THE PUBLISHED PLATES.
No. 1.-THE FRONTISPIECE TO LIBER STUDIORUM is mmost
respectfully presented to the Subscribers by J. M. W. Turner.
Published May 23, 1812.
-The picture in the centre, the Rape of Europa, was engraved by Turner himself.
The contrast between its beauty and the clumsy and unmeaning framework in which it
is set is striking.
PART I-PUBLISHED JANUARY 20, 1807.
No. 2.-(BRIDGE AND COWS.)
P.
No. 3.– (WOMAN WITH TAMBOURINE.)
* All the worst and feeblest studies in the book, as the pastoral with the nymph
playing the tambourine, that with the long bridge seen through the trees (No. 13) and
with the flock of goats on the walled road (No. 43),- owe the principal part of their im
becilities to Claude."-RUSKIN, Modern Painters, Vol. III. p. 324
In spite of its weak artificiality, the composition is in parts exquisite.
E. P.
