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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: List of North of England Place Names ?1797

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: List of North of England Place Names’ ?1797 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Inscription by Turner: List of North of England Place Names ?1797
D01244
Turner Bequest XXXVII 127
Pencil on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with place names (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 127’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page is inscribed, inverted relative to the foliation:
[...]                    Howden
[?Sta[m]ford]   Ely
[...]
[?Lincoln]         York
[...]                      Knares[borough]
[?...y]                 Rippon            Selby
[?Mon Ch] Dunstanborough
[?Barrow Ch]   Richmond        [?Swale]
[...]                      Durham
[...]
     ([...]
8  ([...]
      (Beverly
The left-hand list is almost completely illegible. The north-country place-names that figure here support the supposition that Turner was planning his 1797 tour to Northumberland and the Lakes when the book was in use, and lend some plausibility to the theory that he actually took it with him on that journey, using at least one page to record a northern subject; see the view apparently at Dunstanburgh on folios 46 verso–47 recto (D01211–D01212; Turner Bequest XXXVII 94–95).

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: List of North of England Place Names ?1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscription-by-turner-list-of-north-of-england-place-names-r1149936, accessed 20 April 2024.