Drawn in brown ink at the bottom right of the page is a diagram, probably to do with perspective. Across the top half of the page Turner has inscribed in pencil a list of watercolour commissions for Walter Fawkes, some of which can be identified and dated to 1821, helping to confirm the date of this sketchbook:
‘Mt. Cenis –
Vesuvius
Fusina }150 Gs [
Venice from Fusina, 1821 (private collection)]
1Venice [
Venice: The Rialto, 1820–1 (Indianapolis Museum of Art, Gift in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Hugo O. Pantzer by their Children)]
2Windermere [
Windermere, 1821 (Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria)]
3St. Peters – [
Interior of St Peter’s Rome, 1821 (The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
)]
4Swords and Illustrations to Book. 5 Gs [a Fairfaxiana watercolour]
Oak Chest. Farnley D. 10 Gs’ [Fairfaxiana – Cabinet with Opening Doors, c.1815 (private collection)]
The following calculations are inscribed in pencil beneath:
‘165 – 173 – 5
Interest of 750. one year 37 – 10. 37 – 10
Total. 210 – 15’
And inscribed beneath that in brown ink:
‘Milan
Florence
Simplon
Ramage’
