Turner's Last Sketchbook

J. M. W. Turner, Tracey Emin

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Yale Center for British Art
03 May 2024

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Individual artists, art monographs

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.

Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art

By: J. M. W. Turner
Contributions by: Tracey Emin
Imprint: Yale Center for British Art
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 114mm, Width: 184mm,
ISBN: 9780300275841
ISBN 10: 0300275846
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 03 May 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tracey Emin is professor of drawing at the Royal Academy and an internationally renowned British multimedia artist whose work focuses on the themes of autobiography, memoir, and confession.

Reviews for Turner's Last Sketchbook

“Turner’s sketchbooks are raw, immediate, and endlessly inspiring. They remind us that even in his gestural marks, Turner could evoke a universe of expression. It is no wonder that artists from the Impressionists to the Abstract Expressionists were fascinated by his sketches.”—Artlyst