1791. "This book, like the Oxford sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest II), seems to have been manufactured by Turner himself, although the original covers were destroyed, perhaps in the process of disbinding for display purposes in the nineteenth century or as a result of the 1928 flood; the damaged condition of many of the pages suggests that it had already disintegrated in Turner’s studio. The present covers, imitating those of the Oxford book, were made when the sketchbook was repaired at the British Museum, as noted by Hind. Turner took it with him when he went to stay with friends of his father’s, the family of John Narraway, a glue maker and fell monger (dealer in animal skins), in Bristol. As the book testifies, he spent so much time drawing along the cliffs of the Avon Gorge that he acquired the nickname ‘The Prince of the Rocks’."