Some of the series of drawings made while Turner was staying with John Nash at East Cowes Castle between July and October 1827; see Nos.302, 311-319 and 321. The paper used for these sketches, and the pen and brown ink in which they are executed, occur again in the preparatory drawings for the French Rivers series, and it has been suggested that the date, 1827, which can with some certainty be attached to the East Cowes Castle drawings, may be that of all Turner's work in similar format and medium. Finberg listed a number of drawings which almost certainly show East Cowes subjects among the French Rivers material in the Turner Bequest, e.g. CCLX-5, II, 12, 26, 29, 32 etc.