J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Printed Title Page of Coltman's 'British Itinerary' 1811

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Printed Title Page of Coltman's 'British Itinerary'’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
Printed Title Page of Coltman’s ‘British Itinerary’
D08380
Turner Bequest CXXIII 10
Engraved text (see main catalogue entry) on white wove printing paper, 117 x 75 mm
Inscribed twice by John Ruskin in red ink ‘10’ top right and bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXIII – 10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The printed text of the title page is as follows:
The | BRITISH ITINERARY | or | TRAVELLERS POCKET COMPANION | throughout | GREAT BRITAIN | Exhibiting | the Direct Route to every | BOROUGH & COMMERCIAL TOWN | in the | KINGDOM, | with the principal | CROSS ROADS. | Compiled from Actual Measurement | and the best Surveys and Authorities | By | NATHANL. COLTMAN; | Surveyor. | Employed by the Post Office in Measuring the Roads of | GREAT BRITAIN. | LONDON. | Printed, and Published, by Wm. Dickie, No.120 Strand; | and Nl. Coltman, Green Walk; Black Friars Road. | Price 3s Sewed.
For a concordance of the interleaved pages and a general description of the British Itinerary, see the introduction to the sketchbook. As mentioned there, Turner’s copy is similar to an undated example in the British Library, dated in its catalogue to about 1810, which differs in various minor ways from the dated 1799 (and presumed first) edition.

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Printed Title Page of Coltman’s ‘British Itinerary’ by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-printed-title-page-of-coltmans-british-itinerary-r1136856, accessed 09 May 2024.