Joseph Mallord William Turner

With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner worked a cursory view of a bridge crossing a river across the centre of this page. Though the exact location of this subject is indeterminate, Turner made multiple sketches of the riverside at Paris in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction for comparison. For the watercolours of the city’s quaysides which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24683–D24685 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 118–20). These culminated in several engravings in the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impressions T05621–T05623.