Engraved by Wallis after Turner. ( The Rivers of France: Turner's Annual Tour - The Loire, 1833. Rawlinson 436. Wilton 934.)
The original drawing was among those of the Loire series once owned by Ruskin ( Works, 13.598), and given to Oxford in 1861 ( Works, 13.560). (See Herrmann, Ruskin and Turner, pp.76-7.)
In Modern Painters I, Ruskin refers to this engraving more frequently than to any other of The Rivers of France series, for its chiaroscuro ( MP I:180); for its 'mystery of decided line' ( MP I:196); as an example of the confusion of detail at twilight ( MP I:198); and as a depiction of light effects just after sunset ( MP I:265). For the fifth volume of Modern Painters (1860) he prepared an engraved illustration of the watercolour (which he had acquired in 1857). This was etched by himself, with mezzotint by Lupton, but it was not published until the 1888 edition of that work ( Works, 7.203).