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Turner's Last Sketchbook

by J. M. W. Turner

A sketchbook from Turner’s final years

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A sketchbook from Turner’s final years

This facsimile presents J. M. W. Turner’s last known intact sketchbook, used around Margate and the Kent coast between June and September 1845. Its seaside setting connects the drawings with a place Turner returned to repeatedly. The book also includes a poem by Tracey Emin, who grew up in Margate, and leaves generous margins and blank pages for readers to add sketches of their own. Together, the facsimile and its open pages make this both a document of Turner’s working practice and an invitation to engage with sketching as a practice.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Turner admirers interested in seeing a sketchbook associated with his final years
  • Readers interested in British Romantic art and its connections to Margate
  • People who enjoy books that invite their own drawing or sketching

Themes

J. M. W. TurnerSketchbooks and artistic practiceMargate and the Kent coastBritish Romantic art

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Book overview

A beautifully produced facsimile of the last known intact sketchbook by J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) seldom left home without a sketchbook. Over the course of his lifetime, he filled more than three hundred, most of them small enough to carry in his pocket. This facsimile represents Turner's last known intact sketchbook, now in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art. Turner used it on the coast of the English Channel in Kent, in and around Margate, from June to September 1845.

The volume is accompanied by a poem in which Tracey Emin (b. 1963) expresses her profound connection with Turner's work. Emin grew up in Margate, the seaside town that Turner returned to time and again to draw.

This presentation of Turner's sketchbook includes generous margins and blank pages to encourage further sketches, in the spirit of the artist.

Published by the Yale Center for British Art/Distributed by Yale University Press

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