ABSTRACT
1. Illness: his passion for Turner: the first defence: first meeting with his "earthly master": Turner's career. 2. Visit to the Queen's Physician: departure for Italy: a leisurely journey: first impressions of Italy: Rome: Severn and Richmond: Miss Tollemache. 3. Departure for Naples: the second haemorrhage: genesis of "Modern Painters": exaltation at Chamouni: return to Heme Hill.
