J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions by Turner: Annotations to Printed Page of Coltman's 'British Itinerary' 1811

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Annotations to Printed Page of Coltman's 'British Itinerary'’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 108 Recto:
Inscriptions by Turner: Annotations to Printed Page of Coltman’s ‘British Itinerary’ 1811
D08568
Turner Bequest CXXIII 105
Engraved text (see main catalogue entry) on white wove printing paper, 117 x 75 mm
Part watermark ‘W Di’
Inscribed by Turner in ink (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘105’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXXIII – 105’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The printed text comprises sections 152 to 158 of the ‘Direct Roads from London’ section of the British Itinerary. For a concordance of its interleaved pages, see the introduction to the sketchbook.
Towards the bottom right Turner has inscribed some figures and notes either side of the heading of section 158 (‘to Havant’): ‘20 | 13 | 5’ to the left and ‘81 | [...] 101 | [...] 114½’ to the right. These must be distances in the context of the Itinerary’s tables of routes and mileages; as the words preceding two of the numbers are illegible, their significance in terms of the 1811 tour is unclear.

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Annotations to Printed Page of Coltman’s ‘British Itinerary’ 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscriptions-by-turner-annotations-to-printed-page-of-r1137045, accessed 25 May 2026.