Turner’s Watercolour: “Holy Island—Northumberland”

Turner's Watercolour:rn'Holy Island—Northumberland"rnby Peter HuntrnA steep, sharp, rocky shore, a low cHfF-sidernPale-gold with sunlight cutting down from skiesrnIn tumult on the fringes of a storm aroundrnThe Holy Island. Castle towers loomrnBroken, massive, rough, their colour paledrnBy North-Sea winds and ghostly, silver light . . .