The whole page is taken up with accounts in ink (except ‘1353 7 5’ in pencil), written with book turned vertically:
1602 .. 7 . 5 before. ..
50 Sold for Deposit
1552 . 7. 5
300 Sold for Land
1252 .7 5
200 Bought Ld Essex
1452 7 5
| Sold 50 . 19 Octr
1452 7 5 |
| Sold 50 17 Nov pd Turner
1402 7 5 |
1352 7 5 | Bt 158. 7 4 Parker
1510. 14 .9 | Bt 164 . Ld Egrmt
1674 . . . |
1625 . 11...1 Sold 50£ Stock
1825 11 1 Bt Parker 200
+4 11
2129 . 19.10 Bt Fawkes 304 19 1
[?9] 2
2334 . 6 . 11 Bt Sir John 204 12
2335 2 2 Ld Eg 600
2935 2 2 70 Fawkes note 20 Feby
3005 9 2
The left-hand column, ending with £3005, nine shillings and two pence, represents a running total of the various transactions detailed on the right.
Lord Essex
1 bought the painting
Trout Fishing in the Dee, Corwen Bridge and Cottage (Taft Museum, Cincinnati) when it was exhibited at Turner’s gallery in 1809,
2 for two hundred guineas (or pounds).
3 The same figure and name appear on folio 13 recto (
D08303). ‘Parker’ may be Thomas Lister Parker, a cousin of Sir John Leicester and friend of Walter Fawkes (see below)
4 who bought
Sheerness and the Isle of Sheppey, with the Junction of the Thames and the Medway, from the Nore (‘The Junction of the Thames and the Medway’) (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC) in 1807, probably when it was exhibited at Turner’s gallery.
5‘L
d Egrmt’ is Lord Egremont, an increasingly important patron
6 whose name also appears on folio 13 recto (
D08303); and see under folio 36 recto (
D08340). Walter ‘Fawkes’, another major patron (and friend),
7 ended up owing Turner large sums for the many pictures he acquired; see under folio 36 recto (
D08340) and the sheet of accounts associated with this sketchbook (
D40900; [Turner Bequest CXXII (4) verso]). ‘Sir John’ Leicester (later Lord de Tabley)
8 was yet another patron; again, see under
D08340 and
D40900.
Matthew Imms
September 2013