Turner's Last Sketchbook

A beautifully produced facsimile of the last known intact sketchbook by J. M. W. Turner Famous for his oil paintings, watercolors, and prints, 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 volume constitutes the first facsimile of Turner’s last known intact sketchbook, now at the Yale Center for British Art. Turner used it on the coast of the English Channel in Kent, at Margate and Folkstone, and in France, at Boulogne-sur-Mer, from June to September 1845, just six years before his death. In the foreword, Tracey Emin reflects upon her relationship with Turner’s art. Emin grew up in Margate, the seaside town that Turner returned to time and again to draw. This portable and collectible edition of Turner’s sketchbook includes generous margins and blank pages to encourage further sketches, in the spirit of the artist. Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art