The prominent ink inscriptions seem to have been inscribed over a slight pencil drawing, apparently a landscape, made with book inverted relative to its present foliation. Other landscapes in this sketchbook may date from around 1807 (see the Introduction). With the page turned vertically, Turner set out the following accounts, filling the half of the page nearest the gutter:
Left in the Reduced 150 |
50 |
Now 100
120
200 300
1452–7 5
150
1602–7–5
50
300
100 C
150 R
250 or 70 150
100 <...>
300 [?C]
The figure of £1452 seven shillings and five pence and £1602 seven shillings and five pence also appear on folio 7 verso (
D08294), datable to about 1810. ‘C’ indicates Consol (i.e. consolidated) stocks, and ‘R’ for Reduced stocks (as in the first line). For more on Turner’s finances as set out in the extensive notes in this sketchbook, see the Introduction.
In the outer half of the page, turned horizontally, Turner made the following note. The first line, not transcribed by Finberg, and the end of the second, which he read as ‘Rd’, are now almost illegible due to heavy staining (see the Technical notes):
Mrs Lloyd Gibbon
7 Sackville [?St]
137 – 100
29 April 1807
[?Mother]
The subject of this note is mentioned in the entry for ‘Stays’ in a contemporary
Domestic Encyclopædia, published in both Britain and America: ‘In March, 1801, Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon, of Sackville-street, Piccadilly, obtained a patent for new-invented stays, for women and others.’
1 This is followed by a technical description. She placed the following detailed advertisement in the May 1807 issue of a women’s magazine:
