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This sheet comprises an array of doodles in the forms of various generally capital letters in regular or cursive italic styles, including playful variations on ‘A’, ‘H’, ‘K’, ‘N’, ‘M’ and ‘Z’. The grid of squares and dots are comparable with those on Tate
D34493 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 132), which includes the letter ‘N’ in two styles. Although not Margate subjects
per se, both sheets are included here on technical grounds; see the notes below. See under Tate
D34337 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIII 36a) for closely related works in this Margate subsection and elsewhere.
Tate
D34582–D34585 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 190, 190v, 191, 191v) are all on a single sheet, folded vertically (the horizontal dimensions given above being for the whole sheet with notches at the head and foot of the fold.
D34582 is to the right of
D34585 on one side, with
D34583 and the present work respectively on their other sides. The partial watermark ‘
mlett’ on other sheets in the sequence discussed under Tate
D23337 likely indicates the Devon papermaker Edward Norish Tremlett, operating at various mills around Exeter between 1831 and 1856, in partnership with Dewdney between 1831 and 1833, and Charles Harris between 1833 and 1851.
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