With the endpaper turned vertically, the following notes, figures and calculations run for its full height:
[?Harold] [?9¼ 6¼ B... 9]
Hakewill 8½ 5½
Coast [?Tynmth] 9 by 6 – –
10 10
12 8½
9 , 6
14 10½
50 G. s
12 . 2 18 12
38 G. s
37 . 10
The rather rubbed first word seems to be ‘Harold’. An untraced watercolour design of about 1816,
Battle Abbey, the Spot where Harold Fell,
1 was engraved in 1819 for
Views in Sussex (Tate impressions:
T04428–T04430,
T06002). The figures which appear to follow match the dimensions of the engraving in inches. There may be a reference to the same subject, as ‘Battle’, in a list on folio 59 recto (
D12204; Turner Bequest CLIV a 58).
Cecilia Powell has noted that ‘Hakewill 8 ½ 5 ½’ refers to the size of watercolours based on drawings by James Hakewill and engraved for the latter’s
Picturesque Tour of Italy between 1818 and 1820.
2 The project is also apparently referred to in Turner’s notes on folio 59 recto (
D12204; CLIV a 58).
The line which may be interpreted as ‘Coast Tynmth’ may refer to the watercolour
Tynemouth Priory (Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery),
3 of about 1818; at 159 x 241 mm its height and width approximate to 6 and 9 inches respectively.
The subtraction at the bottom left may relate to the notes about land at Twickenham immediately opposite on folio 78 verso (
D12239; Turner Bequest CLIV a 77a).
Matthew Imms
September 2013
