The whole page is taken up with the following notes:
9690 Andover 3 June 11
1946 [?Murrell G] 3 June 11
1951 3 June 11
19505 3 Jun
25956 5 Jun
69186 Andover 3
58196 Iframomb [sic] 3
} Andover 21833 5
5366 47950 5
52600 3 48802
...1 5
52598} Lostwithiel 3 61648 Covelly
52599} 38024 June
21832 5 5 Redruth [‘?St...’ above]
6 Penzance
41483 Salisbury 3 9 [...]
21834 Amesbury 5 7
33 Salisbury 5 8 St Mich Mt
30 [?Horton]
67950 Salisbury 5 4085 5
48802 5 6 Falmouth
1 Minehead 3 39682 3 Bodmin
61048 28805 3
38024 3
21832 Froom 5
41483 Salisbury 1
21834
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 similar list on folio 253 verso opposite (
D40905); both inscriptions are inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation.
A few of the lines cancelling the numbers are in pencil, with one or two reinforced with ink. The first three ‘Salisbury’s in the first column are in pencil; some places in the second column remain in pencil alone, while others have been gone over again in ink. Turner made identifiable drawings at most of these places, as set out below in the order in which he would have visited them:
