Joseph Mallord William Turner

With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner drew a north-westerly view across central Paris at the top of this page. With the Seine in the foreground and the two western towers of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in the distance, the centre of the scene is occupied by the suspension bridge crossing the river at Bercy. This piece of engineering would have been new to Turner on the 1832 tour, having been opened by Louis-Philippe, King of the French, only in the February of that year. Below is a panoramic view across a riverside landscape from a high vantage with wooded hills, buildings, and perhaps figures in the bottom left-hand corner.