There are two plans, and a number of dimensions and calculations, all made with the sketchbook inverted. Presumable these are connected with Turner’s various plans for a picture gallery; see Introduction for Turner’s new gallery behind his house in Queen Anne Street West, opened in 1822.
The inscriptions are as follows. Across the top of the sheet:
50 20 17 – 34
17 7 119 6 11 66
4 4
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476 23.6 264 13 4
Against the left-hand plan: ‘12’ and ‘6 yd’ running vertically at either side and ‘10’ and ‘3 ½’ below it.
19 yd wanting
6
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132
14
8
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112 2
David Blayney Brown
June 2010