The whole page, turned vertically, is taken up with the following list in two columns:
Pastoral Hay making
1 Cocks and Hens Ploughing
2 Farm Yard Harvest
3 Hedging and Ditching Potatoes [?Dig]
1 4 Twickenham Bridge +
5 Thames Bank +
6 Juvenile Tricks
7 Boy Fishing
8 Flounder Fishing +
9 Solway Moss
10 Cows and Bridge
13 Says Mill
15 Dunkarton Mill
16 Watermill
17 Snow +
18 Frosty Morning +
19 Sheepwashing +
Soldiers and Winchelsea +
20 Norham
This is the first of a series of working lists of subjects within the various categories of Turner’s
Liber Studiorum series of landscape prints, running on to folio 32 recto (
D12171; Turner Bequest CLIV a 31). An annotated version, with full details of the subjects and their publishing history, can be found in the present author’s overall Introduction to the section of this catalogue dealing with the watercolour studies for the
Liber (c.1806–24).
A provisional list of the first ten parts of a projected twenty, each part comprising five prints drawn from different categories, runs from folio 24 verso to folio 25 verso (
D12156–D12158; Turner Bequest CLIV a 23a, 24, 24a); this has been dated to 1808. Since some of the subjects in the category lists appear to have been added as late as 1818,
2 the pages are all dated here to c.1808–18.
Matthew Imms
September 2013
