The whole page is taken up with the following notes:
14665 X Church May 27 11
33208 May 29 11
55883 May 10 11
29395 T May 18 11
33256 T May 31 11
45350 Seaton May 27 11
64522 Bridport May 31 11
/ – / 27 11
12969 16 11
52635 __
20323 Totness 22 11
68489 Ivybridge 31 11
46058 Plym 16 11
47801 Plym 9 11
60117 Plym 6
64402 Fowey 22
73587 Lost 16
72058 Bridgewater 23
73493 Wells 22
64111 Redrut June 3
28805 [?T June] 11
As Finberg suggests,
1 and as Hanley and Holland concur and discuss in detail,
2 the numbers and dates appear to be those of Bank of England £1 notes, acquired before Turner set out for the West Country in the summer of 1811 (see the introduction to the tour), and annotated with the places at which they were broken or spent. There is a another section of the list inside the back cover opposite (
D40906); both inscriptions are inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation.
A few of the lines cancelling the numbers in the first column, and some of the place names which follow (particularly from ‘Totness’ onwards), have been marked first in pencil and later gone over in ink. Turner made identifiable drawings of all these places, as set out below in the order in which he would have visited them:
‘X Church’: Christchurch, Dorset (formerly Hampshire): see under folio 22 recto (
D08403)
‘Bridport’, Dorset: see under folio 47 verso (
D08452)
‘Seaton’, Devon: folios 59 recto, 61 verso (
D08475,
D08480; CXXIII 56b, 58a)
‘Totness’: Totnes, Devon: see under folio 94 verso (
D08542; CXXIII 91a)
‘Ivybridge’, Devon: see under folio 156 verso (
D08655; CXXIII 153a)
‘Plym’: Plympton or Plymouth, Devon: see under folio 106 verso (
D08565; CXXIII 103a) and folio 3 verso (
D08367) respectively
