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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Wey, Guildford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Itinerary and Expenses (Inscriptions by Turner) 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Itinerary and Expenses (Inscriptions by Turner)’ 1805 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Itinerary and Expenses (Inscriptions by Turner) 1805
D40595
Turner Bequest
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry) on white laid paper, 182 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s notes read:
Hampton            3 
Ripley            12  6 
Lock               2  6 
W                  1  6 
Guilford           10 
                   2 
Boat               5 
Godalming          10  6 
Man                2 
St Cath            3   6.    2  11 6 

This is an itinerary of Turner’s tour of the Wey and Godalming Navigations; see Introduction to the sketchbook. Hill notes that the larger expenses would indicate overnight stays or moorings. Finberg misread Turner’s reference to St. Catherine’s, the lock and ferry near Guildford, as ‘1st Catch’ and took it to refer to Turner’s fishing activities. Hill reads ‘12’ for the ‘11’ on the bottom line. He speculates that as the inscription is ‘upside down in relation to the sketches of Windsor and the Wey which follow it ... it seems possible that at some stage the cover has been reversed’.

David Blayney Brown
July 2008

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Itinerary and Expenses (Inscriptions by Turner) 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2008, 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-itinerary-and-expenses-inscriptions-by-turner-r1130547, accessed 18 September 2024.