William Turner - 24-hour dietary recall

Today at nightfall  taking  very poor pictures near home I remembered William Turner one of  the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. And also, its own food memories he wrote in his diary. Nutritionists use 24-hour dietary recalls (24HR) a structured interview  to capture detailed information about all foods and beverages  consumed by the respondent in the past 24 hours, most commonly, from midnight to midnight the previous day.

Turner has inscribed a note about the food and drink he consumed on a particular day. It reads: ‘Bread and Cheese. Bottle of Ale | Dinner 2 Small bottles of Stout | Glass of Gin and Water’.

The catalogue entry is part of David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours