Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

An architect and designer whose illustrated publications helped shape the Gothic revival, Pugin was a skilled draftsman. His work for the Roman catholic church helped forward the spread of the Gothic aesthetic, as did his collaboration with Charles Barry on the Houses of Parliament.
This study was executed as a model for the steel engraving that appears as plate 92, "Notre Dame et le Pont de la Cité, ou Pont Rouge" in "Paris and its environs displayed in a series of picturesque views, the drawings made under the direction of Mr Pugin, and engraved under the superintendence of Mr C. Heath. The topographical and historical descriptions by L.T. Ventouillac." "Paris and Its Environs" appeared in monthly installments, each with four plates, published by Robert Jennings and William Chaplin between September 1828 and July 1831. When the series was completed, it contained 204 steel engravings based on drawings by Pugin and his pupils. This view of Notre Dame and the Pont de la cité was included in the 1828 installment.
The text notes that the cathedral was the focus of previous plates "but the view in this direction exhibits the height and body of this noble edifice to great advantage, as well as the whole eastern extremity of the Isle du Palais, or de la Cité." The Pont de la Cité is noted as sitting 100 yards from the original site of the Pont Rouge. Unfortunately, the Pont de la Cité ("not the most creditable modern erections of this metropolis") built from 1801-4 could not support the carriage traffic and was damaged by troops and vehicles during Napoleon's coronation, so it had to be reconstructed with iron girding, repaired again in 1819, and restricted to pedestrian traffic.