Turner's Rivers of Europe. The Rhine, Muse and Mosel

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Turner is universally acclaimed as one of the greatest painters of sky, light and water. His mastery of all these is amply demonstrated in his many depictions of three of the great rivers of northern Europe, the Rhine, Meuse and Mosel, which exerted such an important influence on the Romantic imagination with their towering rocks, gaunt ruins and mighty citadels. Cecilia Powell has studied Turner's most important tours of these rivers in detail and here traces his