tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post114237358116763997..comments2024-03-16T16:12:13.296+00:00Comments on some LANDSCAPES: Land of DarknessPliniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06529481330530614513noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-1146248899520031022006-04-28T19:28:00.000+01:002006-04-28T19:28:00.000+01:00Good luck with the PhD. I once took a course at Bi...Good luck with the PhD. I once took a course at Birkbeck with Will Vaughan on British landscape painting and did a little presentation on Thomas Jones. Looking back I see I referred to the Hawcroft book in my handout, but I don't own a copy of it.Pliniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06529481330530614513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-1146000405625331832006-04-25T22:26:00.000+01:002006-04-25T22:26:00.000+01:00Do you know the 1988 exhibition catalogue called '...Do you know the 1988 exhibition catalogue called 'Travels in Italy', by Frances Hawcroft? It's a survey of the British landscape artists visiting Italy in the late 1770s and early 1780s, based on Jones's memoirs, many quotes from which are reproduced. There are also many reproductions of Towne, Warwick Smith, Jones, Pars, Cozens etc.<BR/><BR/>There are several copies on sale on abebooks.<BR/><BR/>This group of artists is of special interest to me, by the way, as I have just submitted a phd thesis on Towne (www.francistowne.org).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-1145990671982705342006-04-25T19:44:00.000+01:002006-04-25T19:44:00.000+01:00Fantastic! Thanks for this information... I had ...Fantastic! Thanks for this information... I had no idea it was all available on-line! The Library of Wales site is really interesting. I was hoping the journal would be re-published as part of the recent 'Thomas Jones: An Artist Rediscovered' exhibition and I always thought the it would make an ideal Paul Mellon Centre Yale Unicersity Press book with lots of good reproductions of paintings by Jones, Pars, Towne et al. But having it readily available on-line is the next best thing.Pliniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06529481330530614513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-1145970867181897532006-04-25T14:14:00.000+01:002006-04-25T14:14:00.000+01:00You mention that Thomas Jones's memoirs are out of...You mention that Thomas Jones's memoirs are out of print. This is not so.<BR/><BR/>Both the original manuscript and Paul Oppe's edited transcription form part of the National Library of Wales's Thomas Jones online exhibition, at http://www.llgc.org.uk/pencerrig/index_s.htm<BR/><BR/>You can also order back issues of Walpole Society volumes from its website, www.walpolesociety.org.uk.<BR/><BR/>A French translation of the memoir was published six or seven years ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-1143398181251083822006-03-26T19:36:00.000+01:002006-03-26T19:36:00.000+01:00Your commentary on landscape reminds me of Robert ...Your commentary on landscape reminds me of Robert Macfarlane's two review articles in The Guardian 26.03.05 and 30.07.05 on writres and landscapes. Alongside is apoem by Nicholas Pierpan which may be of interest.<BR/>I was dry-stone walling for the National Trust,<BR/>High on a ridge in the west<BR/><BR/>And counted the scars through each Roman stone,<BR/>Laying in headers of a crown<BR/><BR/>As the valley rolled beneath their weight - twisted<BR/>My straight gaze into a squint -<BR/><BR/>Its poplars aligned<BR/>Like regiments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com