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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: A Midlands Itinerary 1794

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Midlands Itinerary’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
Inscription by Turner: A Midlands Itinerary 1794
D00212
Turner Bequest XIX 6
Pencil and pen and brown ink on white wove paper, 181 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil and pen and brown ink with notes including place names (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘6’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XIX 6’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page, turned vertically, is taken up with the following notes in pencil as far as line 5 (‘... Wrexham 12 ½’) and then in ink from ‘Derby to Chester’:
+ Birmingham 15 from Meriden
F W. to Knowl 11 K to Solihul 3 S to B 9
Bridgnorth to Morville 3 M to Wenlock
5½ to Shrewsbury. 12½ S to Ellesmere
19 E to Wrexham 12½
Derby to Chester
to Mickle Over 3½ to Uxettor [sic] 19
Bramshall Beam[h]urst Checkley Upper Tean
Draycott Meer [i.e. Meir] Lane. Meer Lane End
Delph Lane Stoke Newcastle under Lime
36 ¾ from Derby Chesterton Audley [i.e. Audlem] Gorsty Hill
Hough Namptwich 32 Chester 71½
Uxettoter Spath Crasker marsh [i.e. Crake marsh] Rowcester [i.e. Rocester]
Ellaston Mathfield [i.e. Mayfield]. Ashbourn 12 Miles
Litcfield [sic] to Wolverhampton [‘18’ deleted] 15½ / to Bridgenorth
18 ½ Southwill [sic] to Newark 7 Miles Ely to
Peterborough 29¾ 14 f Dreby [sic] to Matlock
to Bakewell 9¼ Nottingham to Red Hill 4
to Oxton 4¾ to Southwill 4¾ or 13½ to
Upton 2. to Kilham 3 Newark 2 or 2.1.
Wisby Wood 8½ to Brace Bridge 7¼ Lincoln
1¾ or38 ½. Northampton to Daventry //
Southam 22 to Warwick 32

The rectos between folio 2 (D00208) and here are filled with similar notes.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Midlands Itinerary 1794 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-inscription-by-turner-a-midlands-itinerary-r1140729, accessed 18 May 2024.