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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions by Turner: Expenditure and List of Royal Academicians 1821

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Expenditure and List of Royal Academicians’ 1821 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Inscriptions by Turner: Expenditure and List of Royal Academicians 1821
D40976
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCXI’ top left
Stamped in black ‘CCXI’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner used the inside front cover of this sketchbook for various accounts relating to the refurbishment of his house and gallery at 48 Queen Anne Street West,1 and a list of Royal Academicians, which are transcribed below. Finberg has pointed out that the inscription ‘Far’ within this list must refer to Joseph Farington (born 1747), who died on 30 December 1821, helping to date the sketchbook and the tour it records to that year.2
Inscribed in pencil by Turner with the sketchbook turned to the right (the brass clasp at the top) are the following inscriptions:
At the top of the page:
‘Stone for kitchen 7 – 2 – 6
Week [?]Hore 1 – 19
[...] Part 6
Conelly – 2 6
Saturday 21 – 9 11 –
2 6 3
11 7 3
2 days more 16 2
9¼ 12 13 3’
At the upper left:
‘18
18
344
18
324’
And
‘6 8 2
9 12
At 8 – 10
9 – 12 1
1 – 16, 4’
Inscribed at the centre right is a list of Royal Academicians:
‘Thomson [Henry Thomson (1733–1843)]
Owen [William Owen (1769–1825)]
Call [Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779–1844)]
Westmacott [Sir Richard Westmacott (1775–1856)]
Chantrey [Sir Francis Chantrey (1781–1841)]
Collins B [William Collins (1788–1847)]
Turner [either J.M.W, Charles Turner ARA (1774–1857), or William Turner (1789–1862)]
Mulready [William Mulready (1786–1863)]
Wilkie [Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841)]
<P...> Stothard [Thomas Stothard (1755–1834)]
Phillips [Thomas Phillips (1770–1845)]
Far. [Joseph Farington (1747–1821)]
Beechey Rossi Smirke [Sir William Beechey (1753–1839), Charles Rossi (1762–1839), Sir Robert Smirke (1780–1867)]
Jackson Bone Dance [John Jackson (1778–1831), Henry Bone (1755–1834), Nathaniel Dance (1735–1811) or perhaps George Dance (1741–1825)]
Ward Shee Westall [James Ward 1769–1859), Martin Archer Shee (1769–1850), Richard Westall (1765–1836)]
Cooper Howard Flax. [Abraham Cooper (1787–1868), Henry Howard (1769–1847), John Flaxman (1755–1826)]
Reinagle Fuseli Bailey [Philip Reinagle (1749–1833), Henri Fuseli (1741–1825), Edward Hodges Baily (1788–1867)]
Bigg Bigg Chalon...[William Redmore Biggs (1755–1828), A.E. Chalon (1781–1860)]
Bone Stothard
Northcott. [Jones Northcott (1746–1831)]
Nol. [Joseph Nollekens (1737–1823)]
Lawrence. [Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830)]’
Inscribed with the sketchbook inverted:
‘1280
10 A
Extra 61–16–6 Chester
Cant. 1st 70 <Vault> and Walls.
Cantwell 50 Wall and Plastering
Vault. 60 Vaults.
1431 [should be 1531]
Stone Masons Bill
14 Jones for water Closet
13 Stone for Kitchen
17 Duprill (?)
20 Carpenter – Extra Work
20 Plasterer Work
5 Paint
89
1520’

Thomas Ardill
January 2013

1
Hamilton 1997, p.208.
2
Finberg 1909, II, p.642. Ian Warrell has provided further dating evidence (Warrell 1999, p.20); see also the introduction to this tour.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Expenditure and List of Royal Academicians 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscriptions-by-turner-expenditure-and-list-of-royal-r1146220, accessed 26 April 2024.