The following notes (written from the top of the page with the book turned vertically) appear on the right of the landscape sketches:
Upright size 5½ by 7
Coast 5½ by 8½
Dewint size 4¿ 8½
There are similar figures set out towards the front of the sketchbook, on folio 4 verso (
D08369), which are ‘presumably paper or frame dimensions’
1 in inches, approximately equating with the sizes of the
Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England watercolours and engravings resulting from Turner’s 1811 West Country expedition (see the introduction to the tour). Peter De Wint was also commissioned to make views for the series (Tate impressions:
T05267,
T05268,
T05300,
T05301,
T05307,
T05308,
T05312,
T05313,
T05318,
T05319,
T05424,
T05425), although the significance of the precise variation in his dimensions is unclear.
With the page turned horizontally, the landscapes are one above the other and roughly separated by pencil lines, with another separating them from the inscriptions to the right. Both feature hills and buildings, perhaps from the latter stages of the West Country tour. The terrain in the upper sketch appears similar to that in the full-page view on folio 252 recto opposite (
D08804; CXXIII 249).
