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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner List of Towns (Inscription by Turner) 1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘List of Towns (Inscription by Turner)’ 1816-18 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
List of Towns (Inscription by Turner) 1816–18
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Pencil on white wove paper, 129 x 205 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
Endorsed by the Executors of the Turner Bequest in ink ‘No 315 Contains 32 Leaves Pencil Sketches | many on both Sides’ and signed by Henry Scott Trimmer and Charles Turner in ink ‘H.S. Trimmer’ and ‘C Turner’ and in pencil by Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight ‘C.L.E.’ and ‘JPK’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner lists towns on the South Coast, the subjects of watercolours and plates engraved by William Bernard Cooke for Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England. These are: ‘Ilfracombe |Tintagel | Torbay Brixham | Bridport | Watchet | Minehead | Lulworth | Margate’.
Noting that Turner delivered watercolours of these subjects to Cooke in 1818, Hill, Warburton and Tussey date this sketchbook and its drawings made in Sussex and Kent to perhaps that year. However, some of these Southern Coast subjects are cited in Cooke’s accounts for 18171 and it is surely possible that the list might comprise subjects still to do for the series rather than ones that were completed. For the dating of the book, see Introduction.

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

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Account Books of W.B. Cooke; in Eric Shanes, Turner’s Rivers, Harbours and Coasts, London 1981, p.154.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘List of Towns (Inscription by Turner) 1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-list-of-towns-inscription-by-turner-r1131571, accessed 25 April 2024.