December 2020

JMW TURNER

BRISTOL AND MALMESBURY SKETCHBOOK

1791 Narraway Tour
Watercolour-drawings on paper; 7¼"x 10½"; 185mm x 263mm

This is the sketchbook in which the first precursor sketch of 'Squall at St. Vincent's Rock, Bristol' is found at Fo.03R (D00074)

• B+M Fo 01R a house seen beyond trees at malmsbury D00072
• B+M Fo 02R study of the head of a woman in a ruched cap D00073
• B+M Fo 03R thehot wells clifton 1791 D00074
• B+M Fo 04R study of a rocky cliff D00075
• B+M Fo 04V a landscape D40733
• B+M Fo 05R a rocky islet with a ruined arch D00076
• B+M Fo 05V sus sketchbook avon cookes folly D00077
• B+M Fo 06R avon gorge sailing ship D00078
• B+M Fo 06V rocks or hills D40734
• B+M Fo 07R colour trials D00079
• B+M Fo 07V a rocky islet with a ruined chapel D00080
• B+M Fo 08R colour trials D00081
• B+M Fo 09R view between trees and across fields towards the river severn with distant hills D00082
• B+M Fo 10R malmsbury abbey seen beyond trees and buildings from the north-west D00083
• B+M Fo 10V a ruined chapel on an islet D00084
• B+M Fo 11R ruins and foliage D00085
• B+M Fo 11V a face D40735
• B+M Fo 12R view of the ruins of malmsbury abbey from the south-east D00086
• B+M Fo 13R malmsbury more ruins details D00087
• B+M Fo 13V a house among trees on a bank above a river D00088
• B+M Fo 14R bath abbey and surrounding buildings D00089
• B+M Fo 14V inscriptions by turner a list of commercial premises D00090
• B+M Fo 15R two gables and a chimney D00091
• B+M Fo 15V rocks by the severn D00092
• B+M Fo 16R Studies of a porch and decorated mouldings D00093
• B+M Fo 16V view of stoke house bristol D00094
• B+M Fo 17R inscription by turner nmes and addresses D00095
• B+M Fo 17V cote house seen through trees D00096
• B+M Fo 18R trees and wall at cote house D00097
• B+M Fo 18V rocks with a cart and boat by severn D00098
• B+M Fo 18W recto of torn out page - stub remains
• B+M Fo 18X verso of torn out page - stub remains
• B+M Fo 19R a building with arches enclosed in an oval D00099
• B+M Fo 19V studies of a woman with a wheelbarrow etc D00100
• B+M Fo 20R view across the severn from blaise castle D00101
• B+M Fo 20V says colour trials but is inscription D00102
• B+M Fo 21R malmsbury abbey from the north-west D00103
• B+M Fo 21V a church spire and gabled building and 1791 inscription D00104
• B+M Fo 22R malmsburyabbey from the north-west D00105
• B+M Fo 23R avon wallis boats D00106
• B+M Fo 23R view of the avon from walliss wall D00106
• B+M Fo 24R view looking up the avon from cooks folly D00107
• B+M Fo Inside Back Cover shield etc D40736