J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with drawings of the buildings on the right bank of the river at Pontoise, some seventeen miles north-west of Paris en route from Gisors. Particular attention has been paid across the central belt of the page to a long row of irregular structures with the river below and the remains of the castle rising to a greatly exaggerated height above. Several consecutive pages are dedicated to study of Pontoise in this part of the volume and are listed under the entry for folio 33 recto (D23945; Turner Bequest CCLIV 33).