'Battle Abbey Gatehouse Seen through Trees', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Battle Abbey Gatehouse Seen through Trees

From Herstmonceux and Pevensey Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XCI

Date c.1806-10

MediumChalk and graphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 128 x 201 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D05665

Turner Bequest XCI 48

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 48 Recto:

Battle Abbey Gatehouse Seen through Trees circa 1806–10

D05665
Turner Bequest XCI 48

Pencil and white chalk on cream wove paper, prepared with a buff wash, 128 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘48’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XCI 48’ bottom left, descending vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Rather than Herstmonceux Castle, as stated by Finberg, this must be a further view of Battle Abbey of which a group of drawings probably begins on folio 45 of the sketchbook (D05662). In pencil annotations to a copy of Finberg now in Tate’s Library, Edward Croft-Murray suggested that the present drawing includes ‘Battle Abbey Gatehouse’.

Verso:

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David Blayney Brown
March 2011

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.