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

With the sketchbook turned vertically, Turner wrote two lines of semi-decipherable notes across the top of this page. The second line includes the inscription ‘18 Sampson Harbour, 21 Dr Irving’ perhaps recording a physician’s address at the port of that name on the east coast of Guernsey. The top line, including the inscription ‘per week’, may be a short recipe for a cure, comparable with those noted on folio 92 verso (D23698; Turner Bequest CCLII 92v) and on the inside back cover (D41076).