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With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with drawings of buildings around the Château de Saint-Cloud, located some seven miles west of central Paris on the banks of the Seine. A sketch of the lost palace’s monumental garden façade occupies the top half of the page. For examples of the watercolours of the environs of Saint-Cloud which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate
D24688 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 123),
D24689 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 124), and
D24697 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 132). These culminated in three engravings in the 1835 volume of
Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as
Rivers of France), and a further engraved illustration for a new edition of Walter Scott’s
Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1834–36); see Tate
T04739,
T05618,
T05619, and
T05620. A list of pages in the present volume featuring Saint-Cloud is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.
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