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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Mountains and Buildings; Inscription by Turner: West Country Place Names c.1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Mountains and Buildings; Inscription by Turner: West Country Place Names’ c.1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 119 Recto:
?Mountains and Buildings; Inscription by Turner: West Country Place Names c.1799
D02174
Turner Bequest XLVI 119
Pencil and ink on white wove paper, 130 x 79 mm
Inscribed by Turner in brown ink with extensive notes (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘119’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XLVI – 119’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There is a slight pencil sketch, apparently of mountains and buildings, made with the page turned horizontally. This presumably preceded the list of places made in pen and brown ink, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation and continuing from the verso (D02175):
Berry Pomeroy C 3 Totness
Lidford C
Cornwall
St Berries CC Pensanze [sic]
St Michael Mount
Launceston C
St Michael
Restormel Lostwistle [sic]
Fowey
Pendennis
Dorset
Abbotsbury A- 8 Weymouth
Cerne 8 Dorchester
Milton A 8
Winburn [sic]
Corfe . 4 Wareham
Lulworth C & Cove 7 W
Brownsea Poole
Finberg identified this list of West Country sites as copied from James Moore’s A List of the Principal Castles and Monasteries in Great Britain (London 1798),1 with the Cornish places taken from page 6,2 and the Dorset ones from page 10.3 Turner would visit most if not all of them in the course of tours in 1811, 1813 and 1814.
1
A.J. Finberg (died 1939), MS note in interleaved copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, opposite p.118.
2
Ibid.
3
Ibid., opposite p.119.
Technical notes:
There is a smear of colour along the outer edge of the page, from folio 118 recto (D02172).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?Mountains and Buildings; Inscription by Turner: West Country Place Names c.1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-mountains-and-buildings-inscription-by-turner-west-country-r1180033, accessed 19 September 2024.