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 2 Recto:
Inscription by Turner: A Midlands Itinerary 1794
D00208
Turner Bequest XIX 2
Pen and brown ink on white wove paper, 181 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pen and brown ink with notes including place names (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XIX 2’ 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 ink:
Northampton a Cross –:
1 Mile & ½ near London. Warwick
a Castle Bridge Town Hall and
a Gothic Church Dedicated to St
Mary. Birmingham the lowest part of
the Town the most Ancient
Sutton Colefield or Coldfield a large Old
Gothic Church in the road to Litchfield
Coleshill a Gothic Church at Mastoke
near C-. some part of a stately Abby
a Mile furthe [sic] a Castle remaining
Litchfield a Cathdrail [sic] 3 Churches a
fine Portico to the Catherail [sic] Ornamented
with the King’s of Judah Bridgnorth
a remarkable Tower on a steep rock
an upper & lower town with step for
Foot Parssengers. a Bridge with 7
Arches a gatehouse Great Wenlock
The rectos between here and folio 6 (D00212) are filled with similar notes.
Technical notes:
Finberg notes ‘bottom line cut off during re-binding’,1 referring to the outer edge of the page, where only the upper portions of letters forming a further line of text are visible.
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.26.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left.

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-r1140725, accessed 21 November 2024.