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Lectures on Architecture and Painting, Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853

Note 33 — LECTURE III. TURNER AND HIS WORKS.

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Not the Mr. Wells who taught drawing at Addiscombe. It appears that Turner knew two persons of the same name, and in the same profession. I am not permitted to name my authority for the anecdote; various egotistic "delicacies," even in this case, preventing useful truth from being clearly assured to the public.

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