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

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted is a view of shipping on a river with buildings in the background, with a smaller sketch above of figures in a boat with a church spire on the river bank to the right. There are several pages of shipping subjects scattered throughout this sketchbook (for references see folio 10; D25659). Some of these may have been made on the Mersey at Liverpool as there are views of Liverpool from across the Mersey in this sketchbook (folio 3 verso; D25648).