J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Canterbury: Christ Church Gate from Mercery Lane 1794

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Canterbury: Christ Church Gate from Mercery Lane’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Canterbury: Christ Church Gate from Mercery Lane 1794
D00157
Turner Bequest XV A
Pencil on white wove paper, 273 x 208 mm
Stamped in black ‘XV A’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Warrell has suggested1 that this is a leaf from the South Wales sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest XXVI); but the dimensions of the sheet contradict that identification. They roughly correspond, however, to those of the view of St Augustine’s Gatehouse (Tate D01110; Turner Bequest XXXVI P), and the views of Rochester (Tate D00158, D00159, D01109; Turner Bequest XV B, C, XXXVI O). Another view of Christchurch Gate is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.2
1
MS note, Tate catalogue files.
2
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.304 no.34, reproduced.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed in later hands ‘9’ and ‘No 20’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Canterbury: Christ Church Gate from Mercery Lane 1794 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-canterbury-christ-church-gate-from-mercery-lane-r1140298, accessed 25 April 2024.