The whole page is taken up with the following accounts, largely in pencil:
– 405 (12 A [?9] 12 Ap 1809
Groom – 3832 19 Ma 9
Left – 2580 14 Aug [?7]v
8052 9 Ma 9
Gale – 666 2 June 9
M 10055 2 June 9
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53 9
2421 5 13 Mar 9
2127 2 1 Feb 9
Lt 4274 1 23 Mar 9
M 11909 1 26 Jun 9
3 4 6 5||8035 – 23 June 9
2 0 0 5||9212 8 Sep 8
15 4 5|| 869 3 June 9
20 4 10 5||6675 29 Ap 9
10||1124 13 June 9
15 Kings
9 [?Holt]
10 [?Trower]
10 Remaining of Fawkes
30 Swinburne 2 left
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‘Left’, ‘M’, ‘Lt’ and ‘M’ down the left-hand margin are in ink, as are the figures and names at the bottom left, with ‘2 left’ in pencil.
‘Fawkes’ is Turner’s Yorkshire patron and friend Walter Fawkes,
1 but the significance of the other names is less clear. ‘Swinburne’ is likely to be Fawkes’s friend Sir John Swinburne, who is traditionally understood to have bought watercolours of Swiss subjects from Turner,
2 one of which,
The Lake of Brienz (British Museum, London)
3 is dated 1809. However, Anne Lyles has suggested that Sir John’s brother Edward may have actually been the purchaser.
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