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6. Synthesis 1814-19
203 - ‘Scotch Antiquities and London’ Sketchbook - Waterloo Bridge

This book was called by Finberg ‘Scotland and Venice'. It contains two pencil studies related to the Borthwick Castle design for the Provincial Antiquities of Scotland (See No.204) on ff.1, 2 and a watercolour sketch of Crichton Castle for the same work; and, as C. F. Bell pointed out, the sketches which Finberg mistook for Venice on ff.10, 11 and 42 show the Custom House and Monument at London Bridge. They seem to relate to the watercolour drawing of London Bridge in the ‘Hesperides' sketchbook of about 1805-7 (T.B. XCIII f.12), which Finberg described as a 'Study for a Picture’ not executed and which Turner seems to have considered painting at various different times. See also the 'Tabley No.3' sketchbook (T.B.CV, No.119). There are also two very bold 'colour beginnings' on ff.12, 13. f.7 is one of a series in this medium, ff.5-9, which relate to pencil sketches in the "Table No.3' sketchbook (T.B.CV ff.72, 78). The low viewpoint (even more exaggerated on the preceding leaf, f.6.) reverts to topographical types used by Thomas Malton in his Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster, 1792.



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