Joseph Mallord William Turner

With the sketchbook turned vertically, this page – missing its outer half, which has been roughly torn away – is inscribed ‘40 [?Chancery] | M^rs Starkey’. Finberg’s reading of the first word may well be correct, although it tails off. Lincoln’s Inn Chambers, a modern building, now occupies 40–43 Chancery Lane, east of Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London’s legal quarter. Who Mrs Starkey was, and whether she lived at the address or had dealings with Turner through lawyers there, has yet to be established.