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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Hastings Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hastings Castle and Cliffs; and Accounts (Inscription by Turner) c.1810-11

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hastings Castle and Cliffs; and Accounts (Inscription by Turner)’ c.1810-11
Folio 57 Verso:
Hastings Castle and Cliffs; and Accounts (Inscription by Turner) circa 1810–11
D07683
Turner Bequest CXI 57a
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 110 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For views around Hastings in this sketchbook, see Introduction. This view of Hastings Castle and surroundings extends on folio 58 (D07684). Here, it is overwritten with accounts as follows, all written descending vertically:
                    673        5      7 
            26 ...  250 
            Rec 5   923.       5      7 
                     50 
                    973        5      7 
 
             2  S 
      C    841 
      R   2283    9   3 
      R   4110    1   4
                       265     2      5 
          7434         4375    3      9 
                       Navy 
 
         9 July 1811 
These accounts may include stocks or transactions in consols (government stock), reduced annuities and navy notes or bonds.

David Blayney Brown
April 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Hastings Castle and Cliffs; and Accounts (Inscription by Turner) c.1810–11’, catalogue entry, April 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/hastings-castle-and-cliffs-and-accounts-inscription-by-turner-r1131170, accessed 19 April 2024.