THE VALLEY OF CHAMOUNIX. SIGNED AND DATED “J. M. W. TURNER, R.A., P.P., 1809 (?)” SIZE 11¼’ × 15⅝". Made from sketches executed during Turner’s first visit to Switzerland in 1802. The snow-capped mountains in the distance no doubt belong to the chain of Mont Blanc.] [Illustration: PLATE IV. SCARBOROUGH TOWN AND CASTLE: MORNING. BOYS COLLECTING CRABS. CIRCA 1809. SIZE 27” × 40". Turner exhibited a drawing with this title at the Royal Academy, 1811, but it is uncertain whether it was this drawing or the one now in the Wallace Collection. The latter is signed and dated “J. M. W. Turner, R.A., 1809.”] [Illustration: PLATE V. INTERIOR OF ST. PETER’S, ROME. SIGNED AND DATED “J. M. W. TURNER, 1820.” SIZE 11½” × 16½". One of Turner’s first Italian drawings from his own sketches, the illustrations to Hakewill’s “Italy” having been made before Turner visited Italy, from camera obscura tracings made by Hakewill.] [Illustration: PLATE VI. THE STRID, BOLTON WOODS. CIRCA 1811. SIZE 11¼” × 15½". The pencil-drawing on which this is based is in the National Gallery (“Farnley and related subjects,” CLIV, U.). A beautifully balanced and complete design, without any sacrifice of local truth.] [Illustration: PLATE VII. THE PASSAGE OF MONT CENIS. SIGNED “J. M. W. TURNER” AND INSCRIBED “PASSAGE OF MT. CENIS, JAN. 15, 1820.” SIZE 11¼” × 15¾". An incident Turner witnessed on his return from his first visit to Italy. The snow made it difficult to cross the Alps at that time of the year. His sketch-book, “Return from Italy” (CXCII), is full of rough pencil-sketches of the snow and storm effects. Among some hasty scribbles on one page appear the following memoranda:--“Men shovelling away snow from the carriage--Women and children hugging(?)--The sky pink--The light and the cast shadows rather warm--Trees are all covered with the snow--The trees in the distance and wood getting darker.” This is one of the most beautiful and impressive of the Farnley drawings.] [Illustration: PLATE VIII. A FIRST-RATER TAKING IN STORES. SIGNED AND DATED “J. M. W. TURNER, 1818.” SIZE 11¼” × 15½". This is the drawing Turner is said to have begun and finished one morning at Farnley, between breakfast and lunch. There had been some talk at breakfast between Mr. Fawkes and Turner about the relative sizes of small sailing-craft and men-of-war. After breakfast, Turner said to young Hawksworth Fawkes that he would make a drawing to illustrate what they had been talking about. The boy sat beside him for three hours while the drawing was being made, the artist, says Thornbury, “tearing up the sea with the eagle-claw of his thumbnail, and working like a madman; yet the detail is full and delicate, betraying no sign of hurry.” This story has been frequently repeated, but it is hard, with the exquisitely finished and elaborate drawing in front of one, to accept it without considerable reservation.] [Illustration: PLATE IX.