A roll sketchbook. used on a tour to Dieppe and the coast of Picardy in 1845. The drawing shown is perhaps related in subject to the sketch on f.22v of figures round a banqueting table with lighted candelabra, and that of an interior with arches and figures, f.21v further drawing which seems to belong to the group (f.20v) shows a gaslit room with large paintings round the walls; the function represented may have been a Royal Academy Dinner. There is a story (quoted by Finberg, 1961, p.411) that while Turner was at Eu, on this tour, Louis Philippe 'sent to desire his company to dinner (they had been well known to one another in England). Turner strove to apologise - pleaded his want of dress - but this was overruled; his usual costume was the dress-coat of the period, and he was assured that he only required a white neck-cloth, and that the King must not be denied... [Turner's landlady] easily provided a white neck-cloth by cutting up some of her linen, and Turner declared that he spent one of the pleasantest evenings in chat with his old Twickenham acquaintance.' It is just possible that the interiors in the 'Dieppe sketchbook record Turner's dinner with Louis Philippe.