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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Canterbury: The Gatehouse of St Augustine's Monastery 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Canterbury: The Gatehouse of St Augustine's Monastery’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Canterbury: The Gatehouse of St Augustine’s Monastery 1794
D01110
Turner Bequest XXXVI P
Pencil on white wove paper, 278 x 210 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Light beautyfull | Pearly Grass | fine warm tint rather | red in part [?Cole] Brown | + rather Cold | Door almost White | Broke | [?Moss] at all the angles’ top right, and ‘Not Half’ [on tower], ‘Clay & Flint’, ‘Red & Green’, ‘X’, ‘G’ and ‘B’ within the drawing
Stamped in black ‘XXXVI P’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See Tate D00157 (Turner Bequest XV A), another Canterbury view on a similar sheet of paper. Finberg mistakenly placed this sheet with subjects related to Turner’s North of England tour of 1797.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Canterbury: The Gatehouse of St Augustine’s Monastery 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-the-gatehouse-of-st-augustines-monastery-r1140299, accessed 23 April 2024.