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" Vue du château de Tancarville (Seine‑Inférieure), 14 juillet 1826 ".
Watercolor. 20.5 x 27.3 cm, glued at the upper corners on a sheet of 24.3 x 32 cm. Handwritten title at the bottom left, beneath the drawing.
Charming anonymous and romantic drawing depicting the Château de Tancarville perched on a cliff by the Seine river. In its classical form, the castle was built in the early 18th century on the medieval foundations of a fortress built in the 11th and 12th centuries, overlooking the Seine.
Today, the castle is farther from the Seine than shown in our drawing, and Joseph Mallord William Turner also depicted the Château de Tancarville in this position by the water. This drawing provides an interesting view of the place before the canalization of the Seine in the 19th century.
Tancarville is now famous for its bridge built in the 1950s.

Watercolor. 39.6 x 53.2 cm, mounted on cardboard. Aged paper.
Handwritten note in the lower left corner, difficult to read: "Mr. Berthaud[?], Canton, 1889."
This pagoda was built at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, around 1380. Initially a symbol of power for the local nobility, it later served as the northern watchtower of the city of Guangzhou. The monument was reconstructed in 1928 and now houses the Guangzhou City Museum.